Annotation of www/pica.html, Revision 1.4
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1.1 deraadt 16: <h2>OpenBSD/pica</h2>
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! 19: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.1 deraadt 22: The early history is not very clear. Apparently the first work was
23: done by CMU as part of their Mach project. The initial hardware was
24: the DEC R2000/R3000-based Decstations. This code was later used by
25: both the Sprite and BSD groups. The 4.4BSD code, known as the `pmax'
26: port, was made freely available in mid '93. It was merged into the
27: NetBSD tree by a variety of people, but has never been very stable,
28: reliable, or complete. Compiler toolkit problems have plagued the
29: port because the standard a.out executable format is an imperfect
30: match to the MIPS architecture.
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1.1 deraadt 34: Per Fogelstrom became familiar with the code after porting it to a
35: home-built IDT R3081 based board. Subsequently he added R4400 support
36: when porting it to the MIPS R4400 Acer PICA board. Willowglen
37: Singapore purchased a second PICA board for Theo de Raadt so that he
38: could improve the port for use as a development system for an internal
1.4 ! fn 39: project. Since then Theo and Per have had ethernet and a few other
1.1 deraadt 40: small projects working.
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44: The Acer PICA is a dead platform. Acer no longer makes the machine,
45: but even worse the machines are very rare. The main reason to work on
46: this port is because there are a multitude of other MIPS-based
47: machines -- eventually this code will be useful on another machine.
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51: The people working the most on OpenBSD/pica currently consists of
1.4 ! fn 52: Per Fogelstrom, and Theo de Raadt. Of course, others are very welcome!
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! 56: <h3><strong>Where to get it?</strong></h3>
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1.2 deraadt 59: Send mail to <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a> and
60: <a href=mailto:pefo@openbsd.org>Per Fogelstrom</a>.
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