NetBSD/sandpoint

About NetBSD/sandpoint

NetBSD/sandpoint is a port of NetBSD to the Motorola Sandpoint reference platform.

The Sandpoint is a reference platform designed by Motorola to help people develop hardware and software around various PowerPC processors. The basic system is an ATX form-factor motherboard with standard PC devices (IDE, floppy, serial, parallel), 4 PCI slots, and a mezzanine slot to which several different processor modules may be attached.

NetBSD/sandpoint News

2006-11-04:   NetBSD 3.1 released

NetBSD 3.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-3 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures. More information is available in the 3.1 release announcement.

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released

NetBSD 3.0 released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.

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.

Archive of NetBSD/sandpoint news items

Supported System Models

Two processor modules have been tested with this port: