Category Archives: NetBSD

g4u, NetBSD

NetBSD 8 branch created

I haven’t posted any news for some time but NetBSD development is moving forward nevertheless. Just recently netbsd-8 branch have been created which marked the beginning of the NetBSD 8.0 release process.

According to official NetBSD blog there is no strict timeline for the release date but there is a believe it will be shorter than previous major releases. New release will finally support USB 3 by default, sdmmc will include UHS-I and HS200 transfer modes, audio system was overhauled as well,  ARM support was greatly improved and many other fixes and improvements were introduced for various platforms supported by the system.

You can test it by downloading latest binaries or fetching sources and building manually from netbsd-8 source branch.

GSoC should be already underway and the NetBSD project selected three  students to work on multi-packages support  to pkgsrc (Leonardo Taccari), LFS cleanup (Maya Rashish) and Anita support for multiple virtual machine systems and more architectures within them  to improve testing coverage (Utkarsh Anand).

Besides NetBSD news Hubert Feyrer released 2.6 version of his NetBSD based g4u disk cloning utility after five years of updating and testing. You can download it here.

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.1 released

NetBSD team announced 7.1 release on 11 of March, 2017. Release announcement is available here. You can download it from any of the mirrors using torrents, FTP or other services. Full list of changes can be found here. Main highlights are Raspberry Pi Zero support, initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics via nouveau (Disabled by default. Uncomment nouveau and nouveaufb in your kernel config to test), the addition of vioscsi, a driver for the Google Compute Engine disk, improved Linux compatibility and numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.

On the side note NetBSD is accepted as one of mentoring organizations in the 2017 Google Summer of Code. Initial proposals can be found here but official application process will start at 20th of March.

In meantime I have already started to play with NetBSD current (future 8 release) already. It lead to one bugfix for VIA RNG already. Hope to find more in the future.

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.1 RC1 released

Over a year have passed since initial release of NetBSD 7 and the project have reached a new milestone recently. The first release candidate of 7.1 branch is available since 9th of January. You can download it here. It is a major feature and bug fixes update for 7 release and it contains quite a big list of changes.  Please test it and submit all feedback back to the team through pr or appropriate mailing list. Thank you.

Update 2017-02-04:

dmeg from via epia vt310-dp

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NetBSD 7.1_RC1 (GENERIC.201701060741Z)
total memory = 957 MB
avail memory = 924 MB
kern.module.path=/stand/i386/7.1/modules
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
timecounter: Timecounter “i8254” frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400-8237 ( )
mainbus0 (root)
ACPI: RSDP 0xf8940 000014 (v00 CN400 )
ACPI: RSDT 0x3bde3040 00002C (v01 CN400  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: FACP 0x3bde30c0 000074 (v01 CN400  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: DSDT 0x3bde3180 004D8C (v01 CN400  AWRDACPI 00001000 MSFT 0100000E)
ACPI: FACS 0x3bde0000 000040
ACPI: APIC 0x3bde7f80 000068 (v01 CN400  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: All ACPI Tables successfully acquired
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 2: pa 0xfec00000, version 0x3, 24 pins
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: VIA Nehemiah, id 0x69a
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: VIA Nehemiah, id 0x69a
acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20131218
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <CN400 ,AWRDACPI,42302e31>, AslId <AWRD,00000000>
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
timecounter: Timecounter “ACPI-Fast” frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpibut0 at acpi0 (PWRB, PNP0C0C): ACPI Power Button
MEM (PNP0C01) at acpi0 not configured
PMIO (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
SYSR (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
attimer1 at acpi0 (TMR, PNP0100): io 0x40-0x43 irq 0
pcppi1 at acpi0 (SPKR, PNP0800): io 0x61
midi0 at pcppi1: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi1
COPR (PNP0C04) at acpi0 not configured
UAR1 (PNP0501) at acpi0 not configured
UAR2 (PNP0501) at acpi0 not configured
acpifan0 at acpi0 (FAN, PNP0C0B): ACPI Fan
acpitz0 at acpi0 (THRM): cpu0
acpitz0: active cooling level 0: 100.0C
acpitz0: levels: critical 100.0 C, passive 100.0 C
apm0 at acpi0: Power Management spec V1.2
ACPI: Enabled 1 GPEs in block 00 to 0F
ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State [\_S2_] (20131218/hwxface-646)
ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State [\_S3_] (20131218/hwxface-646)
attimer1: attached to pcppi1
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1106 product 0x0259 (rev. 0x00)
agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xe8000000, size 0x8000000
pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1: vendor 0x1106 product 0x1259 (rev. 0x00)
pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2: vendor 0x1106 product 0x2259 (rev. 0x00)
pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3259 (rev. 0x00)
pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4: vendor 0x1106 product 0x4259 (rev. 0x00)
pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 7: vendor 0x1106 product 0x7259 (rev. 0x00)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x1106 product 0xb198 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3118 (rev. 0x02)
wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80×25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
drm at vga0 not configured
fxp0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: i82551 Ethernet (rev. 0x10)
fxp0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17
fxp0: Ethernet address
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vge0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: VIA VT612X Gigabit Ethernet (rev. 0x11)
vge0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18
vge0: Ethernet address:
ciphy0 at vge0 phy 1: Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY, rev. 2
ciphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
pci_mem_find: expected type mem, found i/o
viaide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: VIA Technologies VT8237 SATA Controller (rev. 0x80)
viaide0: bus-master DMA support present
viaide0: primary channel wired to native-PCI mode
viaide0: using ioapic0 pin 20 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus0 at viaide0 channel 0
viaide0: secondary channel wired to native-PCI mode
atabus1 at viaide0 channel 1
viaide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1
viaide1: VIA Technologies VT8237 ATA133 controller
viaide1: bus-master DMA support present
viaide1: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
viaide1: primary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 14
atabus2 at viaide1 channel 0
viaide1: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
viaide1: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3038 (rev. 0x81)
uhci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 21
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3038 (rev. 0x81)
uhci1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 21
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3038 (rev. 0x81)
uhci2: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 21
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhci3 at pci0 dev 16 function 3: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3038 (rev. 0x81)
uhci3: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 21
usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3104 (rev. 0x86)
ehci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 21
ehci0: dropped intr workaround enabled
ehci0: BIOS refuses to give up ownership, using force
ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2 uhci3
usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
viapcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3227 (rev. 0x00)
viapcib0: SMBus found at 0x500 (revision 0x0)
iic0 at viapcib0: I2C bus
auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5: VIA Technologies VT8237 AC’97 Audio (rev 0x60)
auvia0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 22
auvia0: ac97: VIA Technologies VT1616i codec; headphone, 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, KS Waves 3D
auvia0: ac97: ext id 0x1c1<LDAC,SDAC,CDAC,VRA>
audio0 at auvia0: full duplex, playback, capture, mmap, independent
vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: vendor 0x1106 product 0x3065 (rev. 0x78)
vr0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 23
vr0: Ethernet address:
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: OUI 0x0002c6, model 0x0032, rev. 10
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isa0 at viapcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
acpicpu0 at cpu0: ACPI CPU
acpicpu0: C1: HLT, lat   0 us, pow     0 mW
acpicpu1 at cpu1: ACPI CPU
timecounter: Timecounter “clockinterrupt” frequency 100 Hz quality 0
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
uhub0 at usb0: vendor 0x1106 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub1 at usb1: vendor 0x1106 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub2 at usb2: vendor 0x1106 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub3 at usb3: vendor 0x1106 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub4 at usb4: vendor 0x1106 EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
viaide0 port 0: device present, speed: 1.5Gb/s
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0
wd0: <SAMSUNG HD160JJ>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 149 GB, 310098 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 312579695 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 7
wd0(viaide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA)
umass0 at uhub4 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0
umass0: Lexar USB Flash Drive, rev 2.00/11.00, addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <Lexar, USB Flash Drive, 1100> disk removable
sd0: 7645 MB, 1023 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 15656960 sectors
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
match_bootwedge: unable to read block 20964826 of dev sd0 (22)
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: USB USB Keykoard, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev0
wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
uhidev1 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1
uhidev1: USB USB Keykoard, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2, iclass 3/0
uhidev1: 2 report ids
uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 1: input=2, output=0, feature=0
uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 2: input=1, output=0, feature=0
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80×25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80×25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80×25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80×25, vt100 emulation)

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.0.2 released

NetBSD 7.0.2, second security/bug fix version for 7.0 release branch was released on 21 of October, 2016. Release notes can be found here. Complete list of changes are listed here. Choose your preferred download option and mirror from here.

NetBSD, pkgsrc

NetBSD 7.0.1 released, 50th release of pkgsrc

NetBSD 7.0.1, first security/bug fix version for 7.0 release branch was released on 28 of May, 2016. As always it is strongly recommended to update to the latest version if you still use earlier releases. Release notes can be found here. Choose download mirrors from here.

On the other news pkgrsrc  announced pkgsrc-2016Q1, their 50th  release on 9 of May, 2016. In honor to this unusual event several interviews can be found with Joerg Sonnenberger, Sevan Janiyan and Thomas Klausner.

 

Blog stuff, GSoC, NetBSD

NetBSD accepted for GSoC and other news

I wasn’t posting any news lately but it doesn’t mean nothing is happening around NetBSD project. The NetBSD Foundation was accepted as GSoC (Google Summer of Code) organization for 2016. If I’m not wrong project wasn’t participating in GSoC last year, so it’s a welcoming come back after missing one year. Interested students can submit proposals from 14 of March.

Another news came from NetBSD core team. Allan Barrett decided to step down from the group for the personal reasons. Another long-time NetBSD developer, Martin Husemann, took his place and joined the core team.

On hardware side just recently released Raspberry Pi 3 got initial support on current branch, however, still in aarch32 mode.

Last but not the least I just moved full blog page to https and changed theme to  twentyforteen.

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.0 released

The NetBSD project announced their fifteen major release today! NetBSD 7.0 is officially released. This release has lots of improvements, bug fixes and new features. It also supports bunch of new hardware especially in ARM space (including multiprocessor support for them). There is also one new port, epoc32 (Psion EPOC PDAs). GPT support in sysinst, improvements on handling of disk wedges, DRM/KMS support for accelerated graphics on x86, multiprocessor support on USB subsystem are major highlights for this release for myself. Please read release announcement and full list of changes between 6 and 7 releases for more information. System  can be downloaded from any of the mirrors and torrents.

I was expecting to write article on Mac mini late 2014 but unfortunately I still haven’t managed to install NetBSD on it. Though I have several tricks under my sleeves. Hopefully some of them will work. If I’ll have successful installation I’ll update on it.

It was also nice small article about what to expect in NetBSD 7.0 release but it’s not working for me now. If it will try to read it here (cached page)

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.0 RC3 released

Not the long after RC2 release we can enjoy the new RC3 release. The NetBSD project team expects it to be the last before official 7.0 release. The full list can be found CHANGES-7.0 file, highlights in the release announcement. Please test it and let’s make NetBSD 7.0 happen soon.

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.0 RC2 released

NetBSD 7.0 RC2 was released on 28 of July. It contains some software updates and bug fixes. You can read more about it in release announcement or you can peek at the full list in the bellow part of CHANGES-7.0 file (after “Welcome to 7.0_RC1!” line).

On personal note I was a bit unsuccessful to run RC1 on my current hardware. The main reason was disabled USB3 by default (experimental support still can be enabled by recompiling the kernel). Lately I wasn’t using NetBSD that much but I’ll try to find time to run it eventually.

NetBSD

NetBSD 7.0 RC1 released

NetBSD 7 branch was created about 10 months ago and it is closing to the final stage of development finally. NetBSD 7.0 RC1 release was announced yesterday by Soren Jacobsen. Release announcement highlights greatly improved AMD and Intel graphics support, numerous new compatible ARM boards, GPT support in sysinst (my favourite feature), Lua kernel scripting, multiprocessor USB stack, NPF improvements and GCC 4.8.4/LLVM/Clang 3.6.1 (optionally). Of course, there are much more improvements and bugfixes too (all changes can be found in downloads CHANGES file). You can download it from here. Of course, please try it and test it.