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NetBSD mipsco/mvme162 ports

Posted by Nik on from the film-at-11 dept.

A quick glance at the NetBSD changes page will show that in the quest to get a login prompt on everything with a processor, the NetBSD team have done it again. NetBSD is now ported to the RC3230 platform from MIPS Computing, hence NetBSD/mipsco. At the same time, preliminary support for the LX200/300 variants of the MVME162 have been added to the NetBSD/mvme68k port. Has anyone ever had all the platforms that can run NetBSD up and running in the same place at the same time? Is it even feasible?

6 comments

  1. In answer to your question, Nik by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Theo de Raadt has all the platforms supported by NetBSD running in his basement, so that OpenBSD can steal their code.

    ;-)

    1. Re:In answer to your question, Nik by IcePic · · Score: 1

      Nah, the project got two that I know of,
      but none of them went to Theo.

      --
      -- I'm as unique as everyone else.
  2. NetBSD Architecture Farm by AntiBasic · · Score: 2

    Just about. Over at Toddpw.org there is, with pictures of NetBSD on many different architectures. NetBSD Architecture Farm I counted 11 NetBSD boxes, 2 HP-UX 10.20, and 1 iMAC with MacOS.

    1. Re:NetBSD Architecture Farm by Rho17 · · Score: 1

      I'm just waiting for the toaster port!

      --

      God was my copilot, but then we crashed on the top of a mountain and i had to eat him...
  3. More machines running NetBSD by hubertf · · Score: 2
    Check this page to see NetBSD in Action!

    Probably the most complete list of hardware running NetBSD besides Todd's collection is Herb's NetBSD build lab.

    - Hubert

  4. The problem with getting all platforms by T-Punkt · · Score: 2

    running in the same place is that some of them are extremly rare/hard to get.

    E.g. probably less than 200 pc532 systems exist worldwide. Sony NEWS (news68k/newsmips), Sharp X68* (x68k) or LUNA (luna68k) machines never were that common outside Japan (Search the web for non-japanese informations about those!); try finding a PREP machines these days, or a BeBox or one of those machines that are able to run mipsco...