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15: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/aviion</font></h2>
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1.10 miod 19: OpenBSD/aviion is a port of OpenBSD to the Motorola 88100- and
1.1 miod 20: 88110-based AViiON systems manufactured by Data General.
1.21 ! deraadt 21: <p>
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1.20 miod 23: <strong>The OpenBSD/aviion port has been discontinued after the 5.7 release.</strong>
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28: <h3 id="history"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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30: <p>
31: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
1.10 miod 32: documentation for the AViiON series 400. From a cursory glance at it, it was
33: obvious these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, which was
34: already supported by <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there
35: was no interest in AViiON support at that time.
1.1 miod 36:
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38: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.10 miod 39: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge.
40: In two weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running
41: multiuser (but diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing
42: inside the OpenBSD tree.
43: <p>
44: Work on the port has continued since then, adding support for the 4600/530
45: family, as well as multiprocessor support. The port was left staging until
46: the effort to switch all m88k ports towards the ELF binary file format and
47: shared library paid off, from autumn 2012 to winter 2013.
48: <p>
49: The port eventually became self-hosting on a dual-processor 4600 model in
50: october 2013, with the first working (i.e. recognized by the PROM) boot blocks.
1.1 miod 51: <hr>
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53: <h3 id="status"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.12 miod 56: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user, and
1.13 deraadt 57: are currently limited to serial console.
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61: <h3 id="hardware"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
1.1 miod 62:
63: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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65: <ul>
66: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
67: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
68: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
1.10 miod 69: devices; at the moment, there is no support for the on-board SCSI controller
1.11 deraadt 70: in the boot blocks, although the on-board SCSI controller is supported by the
1.10 miod 71: kernel.<br>
1.6 miod 72: The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
1.10 miod 73: this series should work.<br>
74: Multiprocessor systems are not supported.<br>
1.9 miod 75: <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
76: These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
77: and documentation is available.<br>
78: Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
1.10 miod 79: supported, and these systems are able to boot from disk.<br>
80: Multiprocessor systems are supported.<br>
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1.1 miod 89:
90: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
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92: <ul>
1.4 miod 93: <li><strong>5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
94: These machines may eventually run as well, but lack of on-board device support
1.9 miod 95: might be a showstopper. Some documentation is available, but there hasn't been
1.4 miod 96: any work towards supporting them yet.
97: <li><strong>6280 and 8000-8 series</strong><br>
98: Documentation is available, but there hasn't been any work towards supporting
99: them yet.
100: <li><strong>8500 and 9500 series, and other 88100-based models</strong><br>
101: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
102: <li><strong>88110-based models (500, 4500, 5500, 8500+ and 9500+ series)</strong><br>
1.6 miod 103: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
1.1 miod 104: </ul>
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108: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">
1.1 miod 109: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
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1.20 miod 113: The last supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
114: <a href="57.html">OpenBSD 5.7</a>.
1.1 miod 115: Here are the
1.18 nick 116: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
117: OpenBSD/aviion 5.7 installation instructions
1.1 miod 118: </a>.
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