About NetBSD/atari

NetBSD/atari is the port of NetBSD to the Atari line of personal computers. Development activity on NetBSD/atari continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/atari runs on the TT030, Falcon and Hades. Experimental support is available for the Milan.

Release Info

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

Mailing List

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

Mail the NetBSD/atari port maintainer

Supported Hardware

A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4MB RAM (of which 2MB can be ST-RAM) and a SCSI or IDE disk. An FPU is not really necessary because the BOOT and BOOTX kernels supplied in the distribution both contain FPU-emulation support. Although the current emulation does not yet cover the full MC68882 instruction set, you will see that you will get a very workable system.

• ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH
• Falcon video (except Direct Color - 15/16 bit depth)
• Hades et4000/w32-pci video adapter
• Hades et6000-pci and et6100-pci video adapter
• Builtin 5380 SCSI adapter
• Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM's, tape's and ZIP drives
• Realtime clock
• SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2)
• 720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive
• Parallel printer
• The IDE interface on both Falcon and Hades (Including ATAPI)
• The serial interface on the first 68901 UART (modem1)
• 68060 support for the Falcon (CT60/63) and Hades
• The Falcon FX memory expansion
• The atari mouse
• A 3-button mouse (see build description)

• EtherNEC Ethernet on ROM cartridge slot (-current)

• Supported VME-bus devices (TT030/Hades)

  • VME BVME410 Ethernet
  • Circad Leonardo 24-bit VME graphics adapter
  • Crazy Dots VME et4000 graphics adapter
  • VME Riebl (and possibly PAM) Ethernet
  • SMC Elite Ultra ISA Ethernet with SMC_TT VME-ISA bridge (-current)

• Supported Hades PCI-devices

  • Adaptec 2940U SCSI NOT (see the note below)
  • ESS Technology Inc. Solo-1 Soundcard
  • 3Com 3c59x Network card

• Supported Hades ISA-devices

  • I4BSD support for the teles 16.3 card
  • NE2000 compatible cards

• Supported Milan PCI-devices

  • Intel EtherExpress PRO 10+/100B

Note

The Hades PCI bus is very critical. Many cards are not recognized. This seems to be due to electrical problems. The current Adaptec driver does no longer work, unfortunately.