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18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/arc</font></h2>
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22: <p>
1.45 ! miod 23: OpenBSD/arc used to run on the machines compatible with the <i>Advanced RISC
1.37 miod 24: Computing</i> specification, known as ARC machines, based on MIPS processors
25: and initially designed to run Microsoft Windows NT.
1.45 ! miod 26: Such machines included the long dead Acer PICA, as well other machines
1.37 miod 27: manufactured by other companies such as MIPS, Deskstation, NEC, and Olivetti.
28: </p>
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30: <p>
1.45 ! miod 31: The ARC specification is extinct, and no new ARC BIOS machines for MIPS are
! 32: likely to ever be manufactured.
! 33: Microsoft has stopped supporting MIPS platforms after NT 4.0.
! 34: OpenBSD/arc used to provide a good alternative to NT!
1.37 miod 35: </p>
36:
37: <p>
38: <strong><font color="#e00000">The OpenBSD/arc port has been
1.39 henning 39: discontinued</font></strong> after the 2.3 release.
1.37 miod 40: </p>
41:
42: <p>
43: There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
44: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
45: NetBSD as well.
46: </p>
47:
1.44 nick 48: <a name="toc"></a>
1.37 miod 49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
50: <p>
51: <ul>
1.40 jufi 52: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.43 nick 53: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.37 miod 54: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/arc</a>
55: </ul>
56: </p>
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58: <hr>
1.37 miod 59: <a name="history"></a>
60: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 61:
62: <p>
1.37 miod 63: The early history of this port is not very clear. Apparently the first work was
64: done by CMU as part of their Mach project. The initial hardware was the DEC
65: R2000/R3000-based DECstations. This code was later used by both the Sprite and
66: BSD groups. The 4.4BSD code, known as the <i><a href="pmax.html">pmax</a></i>
67: port, was made freely available in mid 1993. It was merged into the
68: NetBSD tree by a variety of people, but took several years to really become
69: stable and mature, mainly because of compiler toolchain problems.
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1.9 niklas 73: Per Fogelström became familiar with the code after porting it to a
1.37 miod 74: home-built IDT R3081 based board. Subsequently he added R4400 support
75: when porting it to the MIPS R4400 Acer PICA board. Willowglen
1.1 deraadt 76: Singapore purchased a second PICA board for Theo de Raadt so that he
77: could improve the port for use as a development system for an internal
1.37 miod 78: project. Since then Theo, Per and others have completed the port.
1.1 deraadt 79: </p>
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1.37 miod 82: As a result, the code has been modified to make it more versatile, and
83: eventually support a larger range of ARC machines. Unfortunately the death
84: of this platform, as well as the lack of general availability of this hardware,
85: eventually turned people away from working on this port. Eventually, it was
86: decided to stop supporting it and remove the code from the tree.
1.1 deraadt 87: </p>
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90: <hr>
91: <a name="hardware"></a>
92: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
93:
1.1 deraadt 94: <p>
1.37 miod 95: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.1 deraadt 96: </p>
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98: <p>
1.12 deraadt 99: <ul>
1.43 nick 100: <li>Acer Pica (150MHz R4400PC, ISA, with on-board ethernet, SCSI, video,
1.37 miod 101: and serial)
102: <li>Deskstation Tyne (133MHz R4600, ISA and VLB)
103: <li>Deskstation rPC44 (100MHz R4400PC, EISA bus)
1.42 miod 104: <li>Algorithmics R4000/R5000/R10000 evaluation boards
105: <li>Algorithmics P-4032 and P-5064 boards
1.37 miod 106: <li>NEC RiscStation
1.12 deraadt 107: </ul>
1.11 deraadt 108: </p>
1.22 johns 109:
110: <p>
1.37 miod 111: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
112: </p>
113:
114: <p>
1.22 johns 115: <ul>
1.37 miod 116: <li><strong>Video</strong>
1.22 johns 117: <ul>
1.41 jmc 118: <li>Built-in S3 VGA graphics adapter (PICA) (with XFree86 support)
1.37 miod 119: <li>Standard VGA graphics adapter (rPC44, Tyne)
1.22 johns 120: </ul>
1.37 miod 121: <li><strong>Keyboard</strong>
1.22 johns 122: <ul>
1.37 miod 123: <li>Standard PC compatible keyboard
1.22 johns 124: </ul>
1.37 miod 125: <li><strong>Pointing device</strong>
1.22 johns 126: <ul>
1.37 miod 127: <li>PS2 mouse (PICA)
128: <li>Serial mouse (rPC44, Tyne)
1.22 johns 129: </ul>
1.37 miod 130: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
1.22 johns 131: <ul>
1.37 miod 132: <li>On-board serial ports (PICA) (can not be used as a serial console)
133: <li>ISA serial ports controllers
1.22 johns 134: </ul>
1.37 miod 135: <li><strong>Parallel ports</strong>
1.22 johns 136: <ul>
1.37 miod 137: <li>On-board parallel port (PICA)
138: <li>ISA parallel ports controllers
1.22 johns 139: </ul>
1.37 miod 140: <li><strong>Floppy drive</strong>
1.22 johns 141: <ul>
1.37 miod 142: <li>ISA Floppy controller (PICA)
1.22 johns 143: </ul>
1.37 miod 144: <li><strong>Ethernet</strong>
1.22 johns 145: <ul>
1.37 miod 146: <li>on-board SONIC ethernet controller (PICA)
147: <li>3Com Etherlink boards
148: <li>NE2000 compatible ISA boards
1.22 johns 149: </ul>
1.37 miod 150: <li><strong>SCSI Controllers</strong>
1.22 johns 151: <ul>
1.37 miod 152: <li>on-board NCR53C96 SCSI controller (PICA)
153: <li>VLB Buslogic BT-440C/445C
154: <li>ISA Buslogic BT-545 SCSI controller (rPC44)
1.22 johns 155: </ul>
1.37 miod 156: <li><strong>IDE Controllers</strong>
1.22 johns 157: <ul>
1.37 miod 158: <li>ISA Western-Digital compatible IDE controllers<br>
159: <small>(bootable only on Deskstation systems)</small>
1.22 johns 160: </ul>
1.37 miod 161: <li><strong>Miscellaneous devices</strong>
1.30 imp 162: <ul>
1.37 miod 163: <li>Joystick on ISA bus
164: <li>PCI bus on Algorithmics P-4032 and P-5064 boards
1.30 imp 165: </ul>
1.22 johns 166: </ul>
167: </p>
168:
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1.37 miod 170: <a name="install"></a>
171: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
172: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/arc:</strong>
173: </font></h3>
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175: <p>
1.37 miod 176: The last supported OpenBSD/arc release has been
177: <a href="23.html">OpenBSD 2.3</a>.
178: It is not available on ftp sites anymore, but it was available on CD.
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