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About NetBSD/sandpoint

NetBSD/sandpoint is a port of NetBSD to the Motorola Sandpoint reference platform.

The Sandpoint is a reference platform designed by Motorola to help people develop hardware and software around various PowerPC processors. The basic system is an ATX form-factor motherboard with standard PC devices (IDE, floppy, serial, parallel), 4 PCI slots, and a mezzanine slot to which several different processor modules may be attached.

The main focus of this port is now on MPC824x based consumer NAS (Network Attached Storage) systems, while the original evaluation boards are still supported.

NetBSD/sandpoint News

2011-04-05:   QNAP support
Although already mentioned as being supported in the past, some bits were missing, which had been fixed now: RTL 8110S driver in altboot for V200 boards, s390rtc(4) driver, full support for the QNAP's microcontroller, i.e. shutdown, reboot, buttons, LEDs.
2011-03-19:   New NAS supported
The D-Link DSM-G600 (Rev. B) is supported with all its devices. Note that the revision A is ARM-based and therefore not supported.
2011-03-13:   Altboot enhancements
Our bootloader got an interactive mode, may be loaded as an U-Boot Linux kernel image and can replace itself in memory. This allows altboot to run on even the most restricted firmwares. Support for more 824x-based NAS boards and a new network driver for ST1023/IP-1000A gigabit ethernet (as found in the DSM-G600).
2011-01-21:   New bootloader
The new bootloader is called altboot and can load the kernel via TFTP, NFS, or from the NetBSD root partition on a local disk.
2010-06-10:   Changed charter to focus on NAS products
The primary hardware platform is now consumer NAS systems, running on Freescale MPC8241 and MPC8245 CPUs. Initially the KuroBox/Linkstation and the Synology product family is known to work. QNAP TS and Iomega StorCenter support is prepared, but untested. Read also the official announcement on port-sandpoint .

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Supported System Models

  • Buffalo
    • LinkStation HD-HLAN (LS1)
    • LinkStation HD-HGLAN [1]
    • Classic TeraStation HD-HTGL[1]
    • TeraStation Pro TS-TGL V1[1]
  • D-Link
    • DSM-G600 (Rev. B)
  • KuroBox
    • Classic KuroBox
    • KuroBox HG[1]
  • QNAP
    • TS-100[1]
    • TS-101 (V1.02, Intel Gigabit)[1]
    • TS-101 (V200, Realtek Gigabit)
    • TS-201[1]
  • Synology
    • DS-101g+
    • DS-106[1]
    • DS-106e[1]
    • DS-106j[1]
    • DS-106x[1]
    • DS-107[1]
    • DS-107e[1]
    • DS-108j[1]
    • DS-109j[1]
    • DS-207
    • DS-209j[1]
    • CS-406[1]
    • CS-406e[1]
    • RS-406[1]
    • CS-407e
  • The Sandpoint evaluation board. Two processor modules have been tested:
    • The "Unity" module with the MPC8240
    • The "Altimus" with MPC7400 (G4) and MPC107

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[1] Support is present, but this configuration was not tested, or not reported working yet. Please tell us on the NetBSD/sandpoint mailing list about your experience with untested models.