NetBSD/vax news archive

2005-11-02: NetBSD 2.1 released

NetBSD 2.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.1 release announcement.

2004-12-09: NetBSD 2.0 released

NetBSD 2.0 released with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement.

2004-03-01: NetBSD 1.6.2 released

NetBSD 1.6.2 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement.

2003-04-21: NetBSD 1.6.1 released

NetBSD 1.6.1 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.1 release announcement.

2002-09-14: NetBSD 1.6 released

NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.

2002-07-22: NetBSD 1.5.3 released

NetBSD 1.5.3 released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.3 release announcement.

2001-09-13: NetBSD 1.5.2 released

NetBSD 1.5.2 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.2 release announcement.

2001-07-11: NetBSD 1.5.1 released

NetBSD 1.5.1 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.1 release announcement.

2001-05-13: 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot available

A NetBSD/vax 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-05-09, is now available in the NetBSD/vax snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

2001-05-06: Two new drivers committed

Anders Magnusson has committed a driver for the Interlan NI1010 Ethernet Controller (il) and a driver for the DEC DDCMP DMC-11/DMR-11 interface (dmc) to NetBSD/vax -current. Both drivers are from 4.4BSD.

2001-05-01: Support for VAX 4000/705A

Michael Kukat has written support for the VAX 4000/705A.

2001-04-28: VAX-specific in4_cksum() function repaired

Anders Magnusson has repaired the VAX-specific in4_cksum() function, which, in turn, will improve performance. For example, a VAX3900 with DEQNA (the bad one) peeks just above 500K/s now, around 50% of the cable capacity, which is actually very good.

2001-04-09: 1.5.1_BETA snapshot available

A NetBSD/vax 1.5.1_BETA snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-04-08, is now available in the NetBSD/vax snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

2001-02-04: Support for new CPU types

Michael Kukat has written support for a bunch of new CPU types, among them are MicroVAX 3100m90, MicroVAX 3100m95, VAX 4000/100, VAX 4000/105A, VAX 4000/108, VAX 4000/400, VAX 4000/500 and VAX 4000/600.

2000-12-06: NetBSD 1.5 released

NetBSD 1.5 released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5 release announcement.

2000-11-25: NetBSD 1.4.3 released

NetBSD 1.4.3 released with support for 16 architectures. More information is available in the 1.4.3 release announcement.

2000-11-07: 1.5_BETA2 snapshot

A NetBSD/vax 1.5_BETA2 snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/vax snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-10-24: 1.5_BETA snapshot

A NetBSD/vax 1.5_BETA snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/vax snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-09-12: First 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot

The first NetBSD/vax 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/vax snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-07-14: Support for dynamically linked VAX ELF programs

Matt Thomas has committed changes so that ld.elf_so can now load and run dynamically linked VAX ELF programs.

2000-06-26: Regained support for MFM disks on VS2000

Anders Magnusson has checked in fixes to use the VS2000 MFM disks again. Along with that, VS2000 SCSI DMA should be able to cooperate with it. VS2000 still doesn't have floppy support back yet, since there is no obvious way to detect which type of drive there is. More details are available in Ander's announcement in the port-vax mail archive.

2000-06-22: First 1.5_ALPHA snapshot

The first vax 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources as of 2000-06-20, is now available in the NetBSD/vax snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-06-10: VAX 8200 Multiprocessor support

Spinup code for the slave CPUs on a VAX8200 multiprocessor system added by Anders Magnusson.

2000-05-18: New snapshot available

A new snapshot based on 2000-05-17 sources is available at: ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/snapshot/.

2000-05-08: VAX 4000/200 support

Support for VAX 4000/200 added, written by Michael Kukat.

2000-04-22: Support for RL01/RL02 disks

Anders Magnusson has written a driver for the DEC RL01/RL02 disks.

2000-04-13: Support for SCSI on VS4000

Matt Thomas has written an attachment and support code for the NCR 53C94 SCSI chip used on the VAXstation 4000. It fully uses the DMA capabilities of the VS4000.

2000-04-12: Support for DEBNA/DEBNT/DEBNK

Anders Magnusson has written a driver for the BI bus ethernet cards DEBNx.

2000-03-19: NetBSD 1.4.2 released

NetBSD 1.4.2 released with support for 16 architectures.

2000-01-20: Interrupt Dispatching Reworked

For the first time since BSD 4.2, the VAX interrupt dispatch code has been reworked. Instead of a small integer (0..63), a full 32 bit value be passed to an interrupt routine.

1999-06-25: Precompiled packages

Over 100 precompiled packages and X clients available on ftp.NetBSD.org. Many thanks to Brian Chase.

1999-06-06: VAX 4000/300 support

Support for VAX 4000/300 added, written by Michael Kukat.

1998-12-01

New snapshot available.

1998-10-31

Matt Thomas has committed the final changes to enable shared libraries on the VAX port.

1998-08-21

The page size is increased from 1k to 4k. This gives a noticeable speedup of the whole system.

1998-08-10

First cut of support for the VS4000 model 60.

1998-07-18

NetBSD/vax is now using the new faster pmap interface (PMAP_NEW) as the default, as well as UVM.

1998-06-04

Support for the monochrome graphic console on VS2000 and VS3100. No X yet, though.

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