About NetBSD/rs6000

NetBSD/rs6000 is a port of NetBSD to the IBM RS/6000 class of MCA-based PowerPC machines. It's the first free Operating System to run on this class of machines.

For PReP-based IBM RS/6000 machines, please check NetBSD/prep. For OpenFirmware based RS/6000 machines, please see NetBSD/ofppc. If you don't know type of your RS/6000 model, please see Quick IBM/NetBSD model reference.

Tim Rightnour is the maintainer of NetBSD/rs6000.

Release Info

• NetBSD/rs6000 10.0 via download
• NetBSD/rs6000 10.0 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/rs6000 10.0 changes
• NetBSD/rs6000 11.0 changes

Mailing List

The NetBSD/rs6000 mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to rs6000 machine: [ subscribe | archive ]

Mail the NetBSD/rs6000 port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Supported System Models

Currently the following models are known to run NetBSD/rs6000:

• IBM 7006-41T
• IBM 7011-250

TODO

• implement bus_dma(9) for machine independent MCA device drivers
• test on more models