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A project whose aim is to update the printing subsystem for the NetBSD operating system to use the ppbus system developed on FreeBSD, another open source BSD system.
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NetBSD-ppbus Project Better Parallel Port Driver for NetBSD This is the home page for NetBSD-ppbus, a project on SourceForge.net that was created to port the ppbus driver from FreeBSD to NetBSD. This project will provide source patches against NetBSD-current which will add ppbus functionality (which includes support for...Anders Dinsen's personal NetBSD page. Contains details on his port of NetBSD to Eicon MIPS based machines, and a NetBSD kernel documentation overview.
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Some NetBSD resources D resources and information Dinsen This place is maintained by Anders NetBSD on Eicon MIPS based units Eicon Networks (previously LASAT Networks) used to manufacture a couple of MIPS based network appliances that can run NetBSD: Safepipe and Masquerade. These...Paper by Brett Lymn describing his implementation of a "kernel-level tripwire" for NetBSD.
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NetBSD Verified Executables In a nutshell this is functionally the same as a kernel level tripwire for NetBSD. The integrity of specified executables and files are verified before they are run or read. This makes it much more difficult to insert a trojan...A paper describing the technical challenges in porting NetBSD to a handheld devices, as well as reasons one would wish to install it on one. [EuroBSDCon]
http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/uploads/media/EBSD04_37.pdf
Paper by Gregory McGarry detailing part of the groundwork needed for NetBSD's threading system and scheduler activations. [Freenix]
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USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track Paper This paper outlines an implementation of restartable atomic sequences on the NetBSD operating system as a mechanism for implementing atomic operations in a mutual-exclusion facility on uniprocessor systems. Kernel-level and user-level interfaces are discussed along with implementation details. Issues associated...Paper by Nathan Williams regarding the implementation of scheduler activations on NetBSD. [Freenix]
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An Implementation of Scheduler Activations on the NetBSD Operating System X association plans to publish this article in the Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (FREENIX 02) Get the paper in PostScript form. Read the paper in HTML form. Read an approximate transcript of the talk....Paper by Luke Mewburn on the implementation of NetBSD 1.5's new startup system. [Freenix]
http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf
A paper by Chuck Silvers about the design and implementation of the Unified Buffer Cache (UBC) in NetBSD. [Freenix]
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Freenix 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Paper Cache a design for unifying the filesystem and virtual memory caches of file data, thereby providing increased system performance. In this paper we discuss both the traditional BSD caching interfaces and new UBC interfaces, concentrating on the design decisions that...A paper by Ignatios Souvatzis entitled "The New Link-Level Independent ARP Subsystem of NetBSD" about kernel internals; how the NetBSD ARP subsystem has been changed to differ from traditional 4.4BSD; and how to change your ethernet driver to conform. [Daemonnews.org]
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Under the Hood D kernels have only supported mapping IP addresses to Ethernet 6-byte MAC addresses (and the FDDI and Token-Ring lookalikes However, when dealing with other types of addresses like ARCnet, AX25 packet radio, etc. with a different length, more general aspects...Contains links to a NetBSD device driver writing guide, in both english and german, as well as other misc. information about NetBSD on various platforms.
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NetBSD related stuff Treiberprogrammierens unter NetBSD anhand von Beispielen. PDF (ca. 190kB) PS (ca. 90kB) Treiber schreiben für NetBSD, deutsche Version, aktuelle Beta Eine Einführung in das NetBSD autoconfig(9) System und die Prinzipien des Treiberprogrammierens unter NetBSD anhand von Beispielen. Aktuell in Arbeit...