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1.1       deraadt     1: <http>
                      2: <head>
                      3: <title>OpenBSD/pica</title>
                      4: <h2>OpenBSD/pica</h2>
                      5:
                      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>
1.2       deraadt    40: Send mail to <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a> and
                     41: <a href=mailto:pefo@openbsd.org>Per Fogelstrom</a>.
1.1       deraadt    42:
                     43: <hr><a href=/><img src=icons/back.gif></a>
                     44: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
1.3     ! deraadt    45: <br><small>$OpenBSD$</small>