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Raspberry PI 2 support added

89 points by fcambus 12y ago

bch 12y ago
NetBSD development is going gangbusters lately. -current is getting a ton of attention w/ accelerated graphics (very nice) and dtrace is getting lots of love, and small device support (like Pi2) is constantly advancing. And still the same extremely solid-feeling, sensible OS you've always known and loved. I started using NetBSD about 11 years ago, and am constantly amazed with the experience. Looked to move to Linux and other BSDs, but can't bring myself to leave Net. If you haven't already started using it, now is a _great_ time to begin.
- justincormack 12y ago
  NetBSD 7 (very soon now) is going to be really nice. There are a huge number of improvements that add up to a really nice system.
  - peatmoss 12y ago
    Is there a link to somewhere that discusses what's coming up in 7?
    - bch 12y ago
      http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-7.0.html http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-7.0.html
mark-r 12y ago
> Stay tuned for multiprocessor support! The dump below that statement appears to verify that only one of the 4 cores is operational. I'm surprised that multiprocessor support would be a big deal to implement.
- bch 12y ago
  This is _not_ the official repo[1], but I can't resist showing off how excellent fossil[2] is. This fossil repo[3] of Jörg[4] (notable NetBSD (and fossil) developer) mirrors the CVS repo - watch the development, or trawl the code yourself to see what's going on. Enjoy. [1] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/ http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/ [2] http://www.fossil-scm.org http://www.fossil-scm.org [3] http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org [4] http://www.sonnenberger.org/ http://www.sonnenberger.org/
- morganvachon 12y ago
  I don't know the technical reasons behind it, but both OpenBSD and NetBSD once had issues with SMP. I think they both have resolved them in x86 land but I don't know about other platforms. Maybe this is a similar issue and won't take long to work out.
  - bch 12y ago
    NetBSD has had multiprocessor support since 2004 [1] -- the biggest thing I remember re: "multi" support was fiddling w/ the thread model, which was a sort of radical period in development[2]... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Symmetric_multiprocessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Symmetric_multiprocessin... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations
- justincormack 12y ago
  Well doing everything at once is not necessary, I don't suppose it will take long, but its always good to test as you go.

89 points by fcambus 12y ago

bch 12y ago

NetBSD development is going gangbusters lately. -current is getting a ton of attention w/ accelerated graphics (very nice) and dtrace is getting lots of love, and small device support (like Pi2) is constantly advancing. And still the same extremely solid-feeling, sensible OS you've always known and loved. I started using NetBSD about 11 years ago, and am constantly amazed with the experience. Looked to move to Linux and other BSDs, but can't bring myself to leave Net. If you haven't already started using it, now is a _great_ time to begin.

justincormack 12y ago
NetBSD 7 (very soon now) is going to be really nice. There are a huge number of improvements that add up to a really nice system.
- peatmoss 12y ago
  Is there a link to somewhere that discusses what's coming up in 7?
  - bch 12y ago
    http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-7.0.html http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-7.0.html

mark-r 12y ago

> Stay tuned for multiprocessor support! The dump below that statement appears to verify that only one of the 4 cores is operational. I'm surprised that multiprocessor support would be a big deal to implement.

bch 12y ago
This is _not_ the official repo[1], but I can't resist showing off how excellent fossil[2] is. This fossil repo[3] of Jörg[4] (notable NetBSD (and fossil) developer) mirrors the CVS repo - watch the development, or trawl the code yourself to see what's going on. Enjoy. [1] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/ http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/ [2] http://www.fossil-scm.org http://www.fossil-scm.org [3] http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org [4] http://www.sonnenberger.org/ http://www.sonnenberger.org/
morganvachon 12y ago
I don't know the technical reasons behind it, but both OpenBSD and NetBSD once had issues with SMP. I think they both have resolved them in x86 land but I don't know about other platforms. Maybe this is a similar issue and won't take long to work out.
- bch 12y ago
  NetBSD has had multiprocessor support since 2004 [1] -- the biggest thing I remember re: "multi" support was fiddling w/ the thread model, which was a sort of radical period in development[2]... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Symmetric_multiprocessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Symmetric_multiprocessin... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations
justincormack 12y ago
Well doing everything at once is not necessary, I don't suppose it will take long, but its always good to test as you go.