About NetBSD/newsmips

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

THe NetBSD/newsmips port is based on NetBSD/{mips,pmax} and 4.4BSD Lite2.

m68k based NEWS machines are supported by the NetBSD/news68k port.

Release Info

• NetBSD/newsmips 10.1 via download
• NetBSD/newsmips 10.1 ISO
• NetBSD/newsmips 10.1 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/newsmips 10.1 changes
• NetBSD/newsmips 11.0 changes

Mailing List

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

Mail the NetBSD/mips port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Supported System Models

Currently only single CPU models are supported by NetBSD/newsmips.

• R3000 and hyper-bus based models:

  • NWS-3470D
  • NWS-3410
  • NWS-3460
  • NWS-3710
  • NWS-3720

• R4000/4400 and apbus based models:

  • NWS-5000

Supported Peripherals

• On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le(4))
• On-board SONIC ethernet interface (sn(4))
• On-board SONY CXD1185 SCSI interface (sc(4))
• On-board HP SPIFI3-SE SCSI interface (spifi)
• Most SCSI devices
• On-board Z8530 serial interface (zsc(4))
• keyboard (kb) and mouse (ms)
• NWB-253 framebuffer (fb) (text only)
• "XA" framebuffer on news5000 (xafb) (text only)
• NWB-5852A 100BaseTX ethernet interface (tlp(4))

Unsupported Hardware

Not Yet Supported

Models / Devices / Functions:

• IOP based systems (NWS-3800 series)
• R4600 based systems (NWS-4000 series; ongoing)
• internal floppy disk
• other framebuffers not listed above
• COMPAT_NEWSOS