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1.10 miod 22: OpenBSD/aviion is a port of OpenBSD to the Motorola 88100- and
1.1 miod 23: 88110-based AViiON systems manufactured by Data General.
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1.3 miod 26: A mailing list for m88k-based ports is available at
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1.1 miod 35: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
36: <ul>
37: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
38: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
39: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
40: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
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43: <hr>
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
1.10 miod 49: documentation for the AViiON series 400. From a cursory glance at it, it was
50: obvious these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, which was
51: already supported by <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there
52: was no interest in AViiON support at that time.
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55: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.10 miod 56: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge.
57: In two weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running
58: multiuser (but diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing
59: inside the OpenBSD tree.
60: <p>
61: Work on the port has continued since then, adding support for the 4600/530
62: family, as well as multiprocessor support. The port was left staging until
63: the effort to switch all m88k ports towards the ELF binary file format and
64: shared library paid off, from autumn 2012 to winter 2013.
65: <p>
66: The port eventually became self-hosting on a dual-processor 4600 model in
67: october 2013, with the first working (i.e. recognized by the PROM) boot blocks.
68: <p>
69: And work continues...
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71: <a name="status"></a>
72: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.12 miod 75: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user, and
1.13 deraadt 76: are currently limited to serial console.
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80: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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82: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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84: <ul>
85: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
86: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
87: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
1.10 miod 88: devices; at the moment, there is no support for the on-board SCSI controller
1.11 deraadt 89: in the boot blocks, although the on-board SCSI controller is supported by the
1.10 miod 90: kernel.<br>
1.6 miod 91: The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
1.10 miod 92: this series should work.<br>
93: Multiprocessor systems are not supported.<br>
1.9 miod 94: <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
95: These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
96: and documentation is available.<br>
97: Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
1.10 miod 98: supported, and these systems are able to boot from disk.<br>
99: Multiprocessor systems are supported.<br>
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109: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
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111: <ul>
1.4 miod 112: <li><strong>5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
113: These machines may eventually run as well, but lack of on-board device support
1.9 miod 114: might be a showstopper. Some documentation is available, but there hasn't been
1.4 miod 115: any work towards supporting them yet.
116: <li><strong>6280 and 8000-8 series</strong><br>
117: Documentation is available, but there hasn't been any work towards supporting
118: them yet.
119: <li><strong>8500 and 9500 series, and other 88100-based models</strong><br>
120: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
121: <li><strong>88110-based models (500, 4500, 5500, 8500+ and 9500+ series)</strong><br>
1.6 miod 122: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
1.1 miod 123: </ul>
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126: <a name="install"></a>
127: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
128: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
129: </font></h3>
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131: <p>
132: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
1.16 ! miod 133: <a href="56.html">OpenBSD 5.6</a>.
1.1 miod 134: Here are the
1.16 ! miod 135: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.6/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
! 136: OpenBSD/aviion 5.6 installation instructions
1.1 miod 137: </a>.
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140: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.8 sthen 141: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
1.1 miod 142: as well as in a few
143: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
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146: Here are the
1.8 sthen 147: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.1 miod 148: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
1.16 ! miod 149: </a>as well.
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