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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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1.17 ! bentley 34: <h3 id="toc"><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1 miod 35: <ul>
36: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
37: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
38: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
39: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
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! 44: <h3 id="history"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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47: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
1.10 miod 48: documentation for the AViiON series 400. From a cursory glance at it, it was
49: obvious these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, which was
50: already supported by <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there
51: was no interest in AViiON support at that time.
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54: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.10 miod 55: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge.
56: In two weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running
57: multiuser (but diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing
58: inside the OpenBSD tree.
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60: Work on the port has continued since then, adding support for the 4600/530
61: family, as well as multiprocessor support. The port was left staging until
62: the effort to switch all m88k ports towards the ELF binary file format and
63: shared library paid off, from autumn 2012 to winter 2013.
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65: The port eventually became self-hosting on a dual-processor 4600 model in
66: october 2013, with the first working (i.e. recognized by the PROM) boot blocks.
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68: And work continues...
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! 71: <h3 id="status"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.12 miod 74: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user, and
1.13 deraadt 75: are currently limited to serial console.
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! 79: <h3 id="hardware"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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81: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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84: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
85: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
86: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
1.10 miod 87: devices; at the moment, there is no support for the on-board SCSI controller
1.11 deraadt 88: in the boot blocks, although the on-board SCSI controller is supported by the
1.10 miod 89: kernel.<br>
1.6 miod 90: The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
1.10 miod 91: this series should work.<br>
92: Multiprocessor systems are not supported.<br>
1.9 miod 93: <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
94: These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
95: and documentation is available.<br>
96: Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
1.10 miod 97: supported, and these systems are able to boot from disk.<br>
98: Multiprocessor systems are supported.<br>
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108: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
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1.4 miod 111: <li><strong>5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
112: These machines may eventually run as well, but lack of on-board device support
1.9 miod 113: might be a showstopper. Some documentation is available, but there hasn't been
1.4 miod 114: any work towards supporting them yet.
115: <li><strong>6280 and 8000-8 series</strong><br>
116: Documentation is available, but there hasn't been any work towards supporting
117: them yet.
118: <li><strong>8500 and 9500 series, and other 88100-based models</strong><br>
119: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
120: <li><strong>88110-based models (500, 4500, 5500, 8500+ and 9500+ series)</strong><br>
1.6 miod 121: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
1.1 miod 122: </ul>
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1.1 miod 127: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
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131: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
1.16 miod 132: <a href="56.html">OpenBSD 5.6</a>.
1.1 miod 133: Here are the
1.16 miod 134: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.6/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
135: OpenBSD/aviion 5.6 installation instructions
1.1 miod 136: </a>.
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139: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.8 sthen 140: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
1.1 miod 141: as well as in a few
142: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
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145: Here are the
1.8 sthen 146: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.1 miod 147: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
1.16 miod 148: </a>as well.
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