NetBSD 7.1 on the Atari TT

[Steve]

Wow! Thank you! My TT is currently needing repairs but I will try this on the Falcon first

[IngoQ]

Great work

When running Windows, a great tool for writing Images to Flashmedia is Rufus. It is Open Source and available here:

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

[Icky]

Great work

When running Windows, a great tool for writing Images to Flashmedia is Rufus. It is Open Source and available here:

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

Thanks IngoQ. I was wondering what the tool might be for Windows. I dumped windows back in 2006 only use it at work now.

[Icky]

There are 3 kernels available by default it loads option 1. To boot into one of the other kernels after the memory test on the Atari hold down the RIGHT-SHIFT key and a boot prompt will appear:

1. netbsd - current Atari TT 7.1.1 kernel with a larger st_pool_size to allow X to work in TT HIGH
2. netbsd-7.1 - original Atari TT kernel
3. netbsd-7.1-falcon - kernel compiled for Falcon (not tested)

Anyone trying to use this with the Falcon kernel its called netbsd-falcon-7.1 so at the boot prompt please enter that name and not the one previously mentioned.

Apologies for the typo in my previous instructions.

For information the disk image is 4GB i.e. using a 4GB SD card is ideal.

[Icky]

Getting there sloooowly - so many packages being compiled to get here.

162 packages to be exact to get this far.

This is the first run of Xfce 4 on NetBSD on the Atari TT:

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Not much to see yet as its running in TT hi-res which is messing up the graphics a little - plus there are many more packages required to complete this build of Xfce.

Will post some more pics as I get the rest of the packages sorted out.

[Steve]

Wow AMAZING! I am so happy you're progressing with this. My TT is away in germany for repairs but when it is back up and running this will be the first thing I try. Will it be possible to support VME graphics cards too? Thx

[frank.lukas]

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

[Steve]

Any updates Icky? Do you have Mach64 support working? Thx

[Icky]

Any updates Icky? Do you have Mach64 support working? Thx

Hi Steve.

Not much progress i'm afraid as I have been ill for the last two months and nothing has got done. I am back on my feet now and starting back into the Atari world again.

My plan of attack for this now is the following:

• Sort out the Thunder IDE interface support - almost there. This way I get better speed on disk which helps with using NetBSD
• Continue with xfce build but am currently having issues with cross-compiling on one package
• Get ET4000 using NOVA adaptor to work as then if I can understand how this works I can have a go at the ATI Mach 64
• Attempt getting ATI Mach 64 working - I am thinking this may be a tall order but will give it a try

[Steve]

This is stellar work you're doing, glad you're back in to it.