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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.
25:
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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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
1.2 ! deraadt 51: <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there was no interest in working
1.1 miod 52: on AViiON support at that time.
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54: <p>
55: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.2 ! deraadt 56: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge. In two
1.1 miod 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>
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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.
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73: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
74: </strong></font></h3>
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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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85: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
86:
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>
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99: <h4>Untested machines</h4>
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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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121: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
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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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