Annotation of www/pica.html, Revision 1.1
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! 3: <title>OpenBSD/pica</title>
! 4: <h2>OpenBSD/pica</h2>
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! 6: <h3><hr>
! 7: <strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
! 8:
! 9: The early history is not very clear. Apparently the first work was
! 10: done by CMU as part of their Mach project. The initial hardware was
! 11: the DEC R2000/R3000-based Decstations. This code was later used by
! 12: both the Sprite and BSD groups. The 4.4BSD code, known as the `pmax'
! 13: port, was made freely available in mid '93. It was merged into the
! 14: NetBSD tree by a variety of people, but has never been very stable,
! 15: reliable, or complete. Compiler toolkit problems have plagued the
! 16: port because the standard a.out executable format is an imperfect
! 17: match to the MIPS architecture.
! 18:
! 19: Per Fogelstrom became familiar with the code after porting it to a
! 20: home-built IDT R3081 based board. Subsequently he added R4400 support
! 21: when porting it to the MIPS R4400 Acer PICA board. Willowglen
! 22: Singapore purchased a second PICA board for Theo de Raadt so that he
! 23: could improve the port for use as a development system for an internal
! 24: project. Since then Theo and Per have gotten ethernet and a few other
! 25: small projects working.
! 26:
! 27: <p>
! 28: The Acer PICA is a dead platform. Acer no longer makes the machine,
! 29: but even worse the machines are very rare. The main reason to work on
! 30: this port is because there are a multitude of other MIPS-based
! 31: machines -- eventually this code will be useful on another machine.
! 32:
! 33: <p>
! 34: The people working the most on OpenBSD/pica currently consists of
! 35: Per Fogelstrom, and Theo de Raadt. Of course others are very welcome!
! 36:
! 37: <p>
! 38: <h3><hr>
! 39: <strong>Where to get it?</h3></strong>
! 40: Send mail to <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a>.
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! 43: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>