vax
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| NetBSD/vax www.NetBSD.org/ports/vax vax | |
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| Status: | active |
| First: | 1.2 |
| Last: | 3.1 |
| Maintainer: | Anders Magnusson |
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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)
