About NetBSD/news68k

NetBSD/news68k is the port of NetBSD to SONY's m68k based NET WORK STATION series. More information on these machines is available.

NetBSD/news68k port is based on NetBSD/newsmips and NetBSD/m68k ports.

Release Info

• NetBSD/news68k 10.1 via download
• NetBSD/news68k 10.1 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/news68k 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
• NetBSD/news68k 10.0 changes
• NetBSD/news68k 11.0 changes

Mailing List

The NetBSD/news68k mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to news68k machine: [ subscribe | archive ]

Mail the NetBSD/news68k port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Supported system models

Currently only single mc68030 based models are supported by NetBSD/news68k.

• NWS-1750
• PWS-1560
• NWS-1450
• NWS-1460
• NWS-1530
• NWS-1580
• PWS-1550
• NWS-1250 (not tested for many years; needs volunteers)

Supported peripherals

• On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le(4)
• On-board SONY CXD1180 SCSI interface (si(4)
• Most SCSI devices
• keyboard (kb), mouse (ms)
• On-board Z8530 serial interfaces (zsc(4)
• framebuffers (romcons)

Unsupported Hardware

• mc68020 based systems (NWS-700/800)
• IOP based systems (NWS-800/1800)
• CXD1185 SCSI interface on NWS-1200
• internal floppy disk
• framebuffer bitmap graphics (needs hardware info)
• COMPAT_NEWSOS

Additional Info

• SONY NEWS series specifications (in Japanese)
• news68k FAQ