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1.1 deraadt 15: <h2>OpenBSD/alpha</h2>
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18: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.12 niklas 21: The alpha port was derived from, and still tracks, the NetBSD/alpha port
1.14 niklas 22: written by Chris Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>. However this tracking is jumpy
23: at best, don't expect the latest NetBSD changes to be in our tree at any
24: given time, the merges are being done when time allows.
25: <p>
26: Initially the reason for existence of this port was to provide the OpenBSD
27: operating system to alpha users, i.e. no special effort was put in to develop
28: the port in the machine dependent parts. The main thing that got done was to
1.17 niklas 29: ensure that all the tools needed to build a full system was included in the
30: tree, as well as updated with the changes Chris distributed in a separate
31: alpha toolchain package.
1.13 niklas 32: <p>
1.12 niklas 33: Today a lot more developers have got themselves alpha machines and we are
34: seeing interest in a more active port. This fact has so far only led to the
35: adaption of the if_ed ethernet driver to be usable by the
36: alpha port, but there is ongoing work on ISA DMA, floppy, IDE & ATAPI support.
1.13 niklas 37: <p>
1.12 niklas 38: So far <a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
39: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org><niklas@openbsd.org></a> has been
40: keeping the port alive, but with the larger developer community coming up
41: this will hopefully be a more distributively (and better) maintained port.
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1.18 johns 44: <h3><strong>Supported Hardware:</strong></h3>
45: <ul>
46: <li><b>DEC 3000/[3456789]00 series with the following peripherals:</b>
47: <ul>
48: <li> Supported hardware:
49: <ul>
50: <li> Built-in serial ports.
51: <li> Built-in LANCE ethernet.
52: <li> Built-in SCSI chips (53c[f]94), though both may not work at the same time.
53: </ul>
54: <li> Things that may work but haven't been tested:
55: <ul>
56: <li> TurboChannel option slot LANCE (PMAD-A).
57: </ul>
58:
59: <li> Things are *not* supported at this time:
60: <ul>
61: <li> Frame buffers of any type.
62: <li> Other TurboChannel option boards.
63: <li> The ISDN/Audio chip.
64: </ul>
65: </ul>
66:
67: <li><b> AlphaStation {200,250,255,400,500} and AXPpci systems (including the Multia) using the following peripherals:</b>
68: <ul>
69: <li> Supported hardware:
70: <ul>
71: <li> NCR 53c810 SCSI (built-in or PCI board).
72: <li> Built-in ns16550 serial ports.
73: <li> DC21040-based ethernet (built-in or PCI board).
74: <li> DC21140-based PCI ethernet boards.
75: <li> DC21050-based PCI-PCI bridges (though other types of PCI-PCI bridges should work).
76: <li> PCI VGA video boards.
77: <li> DEC ZLXp-E1 (DC21030-based, "TGA") video boards.
78: <li> PCI and ISA NE2000-compatible ethernet cards.
79: <li> SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards.
80: <li> Keyboard.
81: <li> PS/2-style mice.
82: </ul>
83:
84: <li> Things that may work but haven't been tested:
85: <ul>
86: <li> Built-in parallel ports.
87: <li> ISA ns16x50-family serial port boards.
88: <li> ISA ns16x50 multi-port serial boards.
89: <li> Other NCR 53c8xx SCSI boards.
90: </ul>
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92:
93: <li> Things that are *not* supported at this time:
94: <ul>
95: <li> ISA VGA boards.
96: <li> Sound hardware (including Windows Sound System built-in on some machines).
97: <li> DEC ZLXp-E2 and ZLXp-E3 PCI video boards.
98: <li> The built-in scsi controller on the AlphaStation 600.
99: <li> PCI boards not listed above.
100: <li> The floppy drive.
101: <li> IDE controllers (including the built-in IDE controller on some machines).
102: </ul>
103: </ul>
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105:
106: <li><b>At this time none of the following systems are supported:</b>
107: <ul>
108: <li> DECpc AXP 150 systems (EISA-bus PC-like systems)
109: <li> Alpha "server" systems (other than perhaps the AlphaServer 400, which might be an AlphaStation 400 in disguise).
110: <li> Multiprocessor Alpha systems
111: </ul>
112: </ul>
113:
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1.4 niklas 115: <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
116: <ul>
1.12 niklas 117: <li>ISA DMA support (needed for floppy support among other stuff).
118: <li>Floppy support.
119: <li>IDE/ATAPI support.
1.7 niklas 120: <li>DDB support.
1.11 niklas 121: <li>ELF switchover (automatically brings us shared libraries).
1.4 niklas 122: </ul>
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1.15 niklas 124: <h3><strong>Snapshots:</strong></h3>
1.9 graichen 125: <p>
1.18 johns 126: OpenBSD/alpha saw its first proper release in OpenBSD 2.1. Thomas Graichen
1.12 niklas 127: <a href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org><graichen@openbsd.org></a>
128: has been creating OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them
129: on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>. Please talk to Thomas
130: if you are wondering over installation issues.
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