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<h2>OpenBSD/amiga</h2>

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<h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>

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The Amiga port is basically the same as the NetBSD/amiga port
but with some additions. The major changes are:
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<li>New interrupt remapping system.
<li>Support for using ISA peripherals via a bridgecard.
<li>Supports GGBus+ (aka GoldenGate II) and CrossLink bridgecards
(Neither of these support ISA DMA thus no PC floppy support)
<li>Tested ISA devices are
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<li>com (Standard PC serial ports)
<li>lpt (Standard PC parallel ports)
<li>ast (AST 4-port serial card)
<li>wd (IDE harddisk)
<li>acd (IDE ATAPI CD, both data & audio support)
<li>if_ed, although named if_isaed due to name clash
(dp8390 based ethernet cards, like 3c503, NE2000 & SMC Ultra).
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Others should port easily as long as DMA isn't necessary.
<li>SunOS emulation can use shared libraries on the '040
<li>Understand BSD disklabels if Amiga RDB partitining is not found.
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</h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
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<li>Ramdisk device.
<li>Make it possible to use the ADOS fs on vnds (virtual block devices)
<li>Optimize the remapping interrupt system.
<li>HP-UX emulation.
<li>NCR SVR3 Unix emulation.
<li>AMIX emulation.
<li>Writable ADOSFS.
<li>Test aic (Adaptec 1522) and boca (Boca's multiport serial cards).
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<a href=ftp.html>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>

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The maintainer of the amiga port is
<a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
<a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a>.
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