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! 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/aviion</font></h2>
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! 23: OpenBSD/aviion is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Motorola 88100- and
! 24: 88110-based AViiON systems manufactured by Data General.
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! 26: <p>
! 27: The current port maintainer is Miod Vallat
! 28: (<a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>).
! 29: Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
! 30:
! 31: <a href="#toc"></a>
! 32: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
! 33: <ul>
! 34: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
! 35: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
! 36: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
! 37: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
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! 39: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
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! 41: </ul>
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! 44: <a name="history"></a>
! 45: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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! 47: <p>
! 48: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
! 49: documentation for the AViiON series 400. Having a look at it, it was obvious
! 50: these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, already supported by
! 51: <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there was no interest in workin
! 52: on AViiON support at that time.
! 53:
! 54: <p>
! 55: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
! 56: although he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge. In two
! 57: weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running multiuser (but
! 58: diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing inside the OpenBSD
! 59: tree. And work continues..
! 60:
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! 62: <a name="status"></a>
! 63: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
! 64:
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! 66: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user but
! 67: diskless, and currently limited to serial console.
! 68: Also, on multiprocessor machines, the system will currently run on one processor
! 69: only.
! 70:
! 71: <hr>
! 72: <a name="projects"></a>
! 73: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
! 74: </strong></font></h3>
! 75:
! 76: <ul>
! 77: <li>On-board SCSI support on series 400 and compatible models.
! 78: <li>Keyboard and video support.
! 79: <li>Test on as many different models as possible.
! 80: <li>Multiprocessor (SMP) support.
! 81: </ul>
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! 84: <a name="hardware"></a>
! 85: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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! 87: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
! 88:
! 89: <ul>
! 90: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
! 91: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
! 92: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
! 93: devices; at the moment only the on-board serial ports and ethernet are
! 94: supported.<br>
! 95: The only model tested so far is a model 410, but all the models in this series
! 96: should work.
! 97: </ul>
! 98:
! 99: <h4>Untested machines</h4>
! 100:
! 101: <ul>
! 102: <li><strong>500, 5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
! 103: These use a slightly different design and might work, but they are completely
! 104: untested.
! 105: </ul>
! 106:
! 107: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
! 108:
! 109: <ul>
! 110: <li><strong>88110-based models (550, 4500, 5500, 8500 and 9500 series)</strong><br>
! 111: These systems won't likely be supported until the MVME197 works in
! 112: <a href="mvme88k.html">mvme88k</a> land. Moreover, these will necessarily use a
! 113: different hardware design for which there is no documentation available at the
! 114: moment.
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! 119: <a name="install"></a>
! 120: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
! 121: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
! 122: </font></h3>
! 123:
! 124: <p>
! 125: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
! 126: <a href="40.html">OpenBSD 4.0</a>.
! 127: Here are the
! 128: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
! 129: OpenBSD/aviion 4.0 installation instructions
! 130: </a>.
! 131:
! 132: <p>
! 133: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
! 134: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
! 135: as well as in a few
! 136: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
! 137:
! 138: <p>
! 139: Here are the
! 140: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
! 141: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
! 142: </a> as well.
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! 149: <br>
! 150: <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
! 151: <br>
! 152: <small>$OpenBSD$</small>
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