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<h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armv7</font></h2>

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<p>
OpenBSD/armv7 is a port of OpenBSD to various ARMv7 based systems.
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
<ul>
	<li><a href="#status">Current status</a></li>
	<li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a></li>
	<li><a href="#projects">Project list</a></li>
	<li><a href="#install">Getting and installing</a></li>
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status</strong></font></h3>

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The current target platforms are Allwinner A1x/A20 (<tt>sunxi</tt>),
Freescale i.MX6 (<tt>imx</tt>) and TI OMAP3/4
(<tt>am335x</tt>/<tt>beagle</tt>/<tt>panda</tt>). We try to support
most of the boards based on those SoCs. A list of supported boards
is in the section <a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>.
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<p>
There are generally still a fair number of things to do on each of
these boards, however OpenBSD is generally considered to be usuable on
them.
The platform is now self hosting, however there is no SMP support.
Networking is working on <tt>am335xi</tt>,<tt>imx</tt>, <tt>panda</tt>
and <tt>sunxi</tt>.
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware</strong></font></h3>

<h4>Supported platforms</h4>

<p>
A note on the platforms and the associated boards; OpenBSD/armv7
bundles various platforms sharing the ARM v7 architecture. Due to the
fact that there are many System on a Chips (SoC) around, this
OpenBSD/armv7 differenties between various SoCs and they may have a
different level of support between them. All devices based on the
i.MX6 are refered to as <tt>imx</tt>, all devices based on A1x/A20 are
refered to as <tt>sunxi</tt>. The boards with an OMAP 3/4 SoC are
subdivided into <tt>am335x</tt> (for BeagleBone),<tt>beagle</tt> (for
BeagleBoard) and <tt>panda</tt> (for PandaBoard).
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<ul>
  	<li>A1x/A20
	<ul>
		<li>Cubieboard and Cubieboard 2</li>
		<li>pcDuino</li>
	</ul>
	<li>i.MX6
	<ul>
		<li>SABRE Lite</li>
		<li>Nitrogen6X</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>OMAP3/4
	<ul>
		<li>BeagleBoard C4 / xM</li>
		<li>BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black</li>
		<li>PandaBoard and PandaBoard ES</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<h4>Ethernet</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cpsw&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=armv7">cpsw(4)</a>
	  CPSW Ethernet device on <tt>am335x</tt></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=imxenet&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=armv7">imxenet(4)</a>
	  i.MX Ethernet device on <tt>imx</tt></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sxie&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=armv7">sxie(4)</a>
	  sunxi Ethernet device on <tt>sunxi</tt></li>
</ul>

<h4>Storage</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahci&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=armv7">ahci(4)</a>
	  on <tt>imx</tt>
	<li>SD/MMC controller on i.MX6/OMAP, including BeagleBone Black's built-in flash.</li>
</ul>

<h4>USB</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ehci&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=armv7">ehci(4)</a>
	  on <tt>imx</tt> and <tt>panda</tt>.</li>
</ul>

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
</strong></font></h3>

<ul>
	<li>SMP</li>
	<li>Hard-float Userland</li>
	<li>EABI</li>
	<li>Generic kernel using FDT.</li>
	<li>Proper boot support.</li>
	<li>Support for the battery-backed RTC.</li>
	<li>Support for the DMA controller.</li>
	<li>Support for USB on BeagleBoard and BeagleBone models.</li>
</ul>

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<strong>Getting and installing</strong>
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Snapshots are made available regularly, in

<a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7">this location</a>
as well as in a few
<a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
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<p>
Here are the
<a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
OpenBSD/armv7 snapshot installation instructions
</a> as well.
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