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NetBSD/vax www.NetBSD.org/ports/vax vax
Status:active
First:1.2
Last:3.1
Maintainer:Anders Magnusson
Image:Vax 11-750.gif

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NetBSD/vax

NetBSD/vax can run on most popular VAX models. Notable exceptions are the 11/725 and 11/730, the MicroVAX/VAXstation I, and the larger models like the 6000, 7000, and 10000 series.

Available projects

This is a short list of projects available to those interested in hacking on NetBSD/vax. Please feel free to add or update this list, particularly if you have more information or wish to indicate you are working on any item.

Hardware support

  • Support for the VAXstation 3520/3540
  • Support for the VAX 6000 series
  • Supporting the environment sensors on the 8600
  • DSSI/CI support - disks tapes and networking via shac(4)
  • Fixing RL(V)11
  • Integrating Blaz Antonic's LCSPX/SPXg driver (Jochen Kunz is working on)
  • Driver for the GPX display board
  • MV 2000 / VS 2000 SCSI booting (ROM patches available, but the bootloader needs to be updated)

Other issues

  • build.sh fails on native build (cross building works fine)
  • Verifying if the issues with > 4GB filesystems are all resolved
  • Fixing SMP to work with SA threads
  • Any other VAX related PRs
  • Getting X11 to run on the VAXstation 2000/3100/4000 (SPX, GPX, LCSPX, Mono)
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