Annotation of www/pica.html, Revision 1.3
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>
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