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About NetBSD/sun2

NetBSD/sun2 is the port of NetBSD to the Sun Microsystems sun2 series of computers, which are based on the Motorola 68010 CPU with a Sun-designed custom MMU. Sun sold these computers as both servers and desktop workstations from the early to mid 1980's. They were superseded by the sun3 systems, which are supported by NetBSD as NetBSD/sun3.

NetBSD/sun2 News

2009-11-14:   Quick procedure to run NetBSD/sun2 5.0.1 on TME
A pre-built disk image of NetBSD/sun2 5.0.1 release for TME is available for easy trial of NetBSD/sun2 on the machine emulator using pre-compiled tme binaries on modern machines. See annoucement message for details.
2001-08-16:   3Com 3c400 Multibus Ethernet driver
A new driver for the 3Com 3c400 Multibus Ethernet card is available, ec(4).
2001-05-18:   Netbooting NetBSD/sun2 documentation
Matthew Fredette, the NetBSD/sun2 port maintainer, has added instructions on netbooting NetBSD/sun2 to the NetBSD Diskless HOWTO.
2001-05-09:   Port page created
NetBSD/sun2 now has a port page on www.NetBSD.org.

Archive of NetBSD/sun2 news items

Supported System Models

The initial snapshots of NetBSD/sun2 support the following systems:

  • Sun2 Multibus machines:

    • Sun 2/120
    • Sun 2/170
    • Sun 1/100U (serial console only)

Supported Hardware

NetBSD/sun2 currently supports the following hardware:

  • 1 bpp framebuffer, Multibus card (bwtwo)
  • 10 Mbps Intel 82586 ethernet, Multibus card (ie)
  • 10 Mbps 3Com 3c400 ethernet, Multibus card (ec)
  • 5 MB/s Sun-2 SCSI controller, Multibus card (Interrupt driven and polled DMA) (sc)
  • All on-board and optional serial ports
  • Most input devices (keyboards, mice, trackballs)

System Models Not Supported

NetBSD/sun2 does not currently support the following hardware:

  • Sun2 VME machines:

    • Sun 2/50
    • Sun 2/130
    • Sun 2/160