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! OpenBSD/aviion is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Motorola 88100- and
  88110-based AViiON systems manufactured by Data General.
  
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! OpenBSD/aviion is a port of OpenBSD to the Motorola 88100- and
  88110-based AViiON systems manufactured by Data General.
  
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  In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
! documentation for the AViiON series 400. Having a look at it, it was obvious
! these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, already supported by
! <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there was no interest in working
! on AViiON support at that time.
  
  <p>
  Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
! even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge. In two
! weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running multiuser (but
! diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing inside the OpenBSD
! tree. And work continues..
! 
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  <a name="status"></a>
  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
  
  <p>
  All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user (some of
! them do not support the onboard SCSI controller yet and need to run diskless),
! and currently limited to serial console. There isn't any disk bootloader yet,
! so the kernel has to be netbooted.
  
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  <p>
  In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
! documentation for the AViiON series 400. From a cursory glance at it, it was
! obvious these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, which was
! already supported by <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there
! was no interest in AViiON support at that time.
  
  <p>
  Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
! even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge.
! In two weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running
! multiuser (but diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing
! inside the OpenBSD tree.
! <p>
! Work on the port has continued since then, adding support for the 4600/530
! family, as well as multiprocessor support. The port was left staging until
! the effort to switch all m88k ports towards the ELF binary file format and
! shared library paid off, from autumn 2012 to winter 2013.
! <p>
! The port eventually became self-hosting on a dual-processor 4600 model in
! october 2013, with the first working (i.e. recognized by the PROM) boot blocks.
! <p>
! And work continues...
  <hr>
  <a name="status"></a>
  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
  
  <p>
  All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user (some of
! them do not support booting from the onboard SCSI controller yet and need to
! boot from a DG/UX setup or run diskless), and currently limited to serial
! console.
  
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  </strong></font></h3>
  
  <ul>
!   <li>Disk bootloader.
!   <li>On-board SCSI support on series 400 and compatible models.
!   <li>Keyboard and video support.
    <li>Test on as many different models as possible.
  </ul>
  
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  <ul>
!   <li>AIC-6250 (on-board SCSI on series 400) support in the disk bootloader.
!   <li>DMA support for the AIC-6250 SCSI controller.
!   <li>Keyboard and video support (and an X server).
    <li>Test on as many different models as possible.
  </ul>
  
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  <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
  These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
  Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
! devices; at the moment only the on-board serial ports and ethernet are
! supported.<br>
  The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
! this series should work.
  <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
  These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
  and documentation is available.<br>
  Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
! supported, but there are no disk boot blocks yet.
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  <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
  These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
  Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
! devices; at the moment, there is no support for the on-board SCSI controller
! in the boot blocks, athough the on-board SCSI controller is supported by the
! kernel.<br>
  The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
! this series should work.<br>
! Multiprocessor systems are not supported.<br>
  <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
  These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
  and documentation is available.<br>
  Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
! supported, and these systems are able to boot from disk.<br>
! Multiprocessor systems are supported.<br>
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