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Verified Executables for NetBSD - Paper by Brett Lymn describing his implementation of a 'kernel-level tripwire' for NetBSD.

NetBSD and Handheld Platforms - 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] [PDF] (October 29, 2004)

Under the Hood - 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] (September 1, 1998)

NetBSD related stuff - Contains links to a NetBSD device driver writing guide, in both english and german.

Scheduler Activations on NetBSD - Paper by Nathan Williams regarding the implementation of scheduler activations on NetBSD. [Freenix] (June 14, 2002)

NetBSD Ppbus Project - 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.

UBC: An Efficient Unified I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD - A paper by Chuck Silvers about the design and implementation of the Unified Buffer Cache (UBC) in NetBSD. [Freenix] (June 23, 2000)

UVM Virtual Memory System - The new virtual memory system introduced with NetBSD 1.4. Includes papers on the design, FAQs and transcripts of talks.

Some NetBSD resources - Anders Dinsen's personal NetBSD page. Contains details on his port of NetBSD to Eicon MIPS based machines, and a NetBSD kernel documentation overview.

The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System - Paper by Luke Mewburn on the implementation of NetBSD 1.5's new startup system. [Freenix] [PDF] (June 25, 2001)

An Implementation of User-level Restartable Atomic Sequences on the NetBSD Operating System - Paper by Gregory McGarry detailing part of the groundwork needed for NetBSD's threading system and scheduler activations. [Freenix] (June 12, 2003)