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1.10 miod 20: OpenBSD/aviion is a port of OpenBSD to the Motorola 88100- and
1.1 miod 21: 88110-based AViiON systems manufactured by Data General.
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1.3 miod 24: A mailing list for m88k-based ports is available at
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1.17 bentley 32: <h3 id="toc"><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1 miod 33: <ul>
34: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
35: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
36: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
37: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
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42: <h3 id="history"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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45: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
1.10 miod 46: documentation for the AViiON series 400. From a cursory glance at it, it was
47: obvious these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, which was
48: already supported by <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there
49: was no interest in AViiON support at that time.
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52: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.10 miod 53: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge.
54: In two weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running
55: multiuser (but diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing
56: inside the OpenBSD tree.
57: <p>
58: Work on the port has continued since then, adding support for the 4600/530
59: family, as well as multiprocessor support. The port was left staging until
60: the effort to switch all m88k ports towards the ELF binary file format and
61: shared library paid off, from autumn 2012 to winter 2013.
62: <p>
63: The port eventually became self-hosting on a dual-processor 4600 model in
64: october 2013, with the first working (i.e. recognized by the PROM) boot blocks.
65: <p>
66: And work continues...
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69: <h3 id="status"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.12 miod 72: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user, and
1.13 deraadt 73: are currently limited to serial console.
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1.17 bentley 76:
77: <h3 id="hardware"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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79: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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81: <ul>
82: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
83: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
84: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
1.10 miod 85: devices; at the moment, there is no support for the on-board SCSI controller
1.11 deraadt 86: in the boot blocks, although the on-board SCSI controller is supported by the
1.10 miod 87: kernel.<br>
1.6 miod 88: The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
1.10 miod 89: this series should work.<br>
90: Multiprocessor systems are not supported.<br>
1.9 miod 91: <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
92: These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
93: and documentation is available.<br>
94: Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
1.10 miod 95: supported, and these systems are able to boot from disk.<br>
96: Multiprocessor systems are supported.<br>
1.1 miod 97: </ul>
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1.1 miod 105:
106: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
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108: <ul>
1.4 miod 109: <li><strong>5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
110: These machines may eventually run as well, but lack of on-board device support
1.9 miod 111: might be a showstopper. Some documentation is available, but there hasn't been
1.4 miod 112: any work towards supporting them yet.
113: <li><strong>6280 and 8000-8 series</strong><br>
114: Documentation is available, but there hasn't been any work towards supporting
115: them yet.
116: <li><strong>8500 and 9500 series, and other 88100-based models</strong><br>
117: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
118: <li><strong>88110-based models (500, 4500, 5500, 8500+ and 9500+ series)</strong><br>
1.6 miod 119: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
1.1 miod 120: </ul>
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1.1 miod 125: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
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129: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
1.18 nick 130: <a href="56.html">OpenBSD 5.7</a>.
1.1 miod 131: Here are the
1.18 nick 132: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
133: OpenBSD/aviion 5.7 installation instructions
1.1 miod 134: </a>.
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137: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.8 sthen 138: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
1.1 miod 139: as well as in a few
140: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
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143: Here are the
1.8 sthen 144: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.1 miod 145: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
1.16 miod 146: </a>as well.
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