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.
2001-02-02: Support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter
Marcus Comstedt and Jason Thorpe have added support for the
SEGA Broadband Adapter to the NetBSD/dreamcast port. This
allows NetBSD/dreamcast to run from an NFS root file system.
In addition to the Broadband Adapter, the keyboard and display
console support has been improved.
A session transcript from a telnet
login to a Dreamcast running NetBSD on an NFS root is available.
The kernel was loaded over the Broadband Adapter using Marcus'
IP-slave boot loader.
January 2001
2001-01-22: GD-ROM device driver working
Marcus Comstedt has committed a working GD-ROM device driver.
If you've burned a CD with NetBSD binaries, you can now type "gdrom0" when
you get to the "root device" prompt (leave the dump device field empty,
and type "cd9660" as file system).
2001-01-18: Display and keyboard working within wscons
Marcus Comstedt has gotten his display and keyboard drivers to work
within the wscons framework.
There's still work to do, but booting up a single user shell with the
screen and keyboard as console works fine.
The port of the NetBSD operating system to Sega's Dreamcast game
console is reaching a state where it's near to single user mode.
Utilizing the NetBSD/evbsh3 port's simple structure and the fact that
it supports both big and little endian architectures as well as the
general clean design of the NetBSD operating system helped for this
port. Device drivers for the game pad, keyboard etc. are next on the
todo-list of Saitoh Masanobu, who works on this port.
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