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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.
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1.3 ! miod 27: A mailing list for m88k-based ports is available at
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1.1 miod 36: The current port maintainer is Miod Vallat
37: (<a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>).
38: Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
39:
40: <a href="#toc"></a>
41: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
42: <ul>
43: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
44: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
45: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
46: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
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48: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
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50: </ul>
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52: <hr>
53: <a name="history"></a>
54: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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56: <p>
57: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
58: documentation for the AViiON series 400. Having a look at it, it was obvious
59: these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, already supported by
1.2 deraadt 60: <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there was no interest in working
1.1 miod 61: on AViiON support at that time.
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63: <p>
64: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.2 deraadt 65: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge. In two
1.1 miod 66: weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running multiuser (but
67: diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing inside the OpenBSD
68: tree. And work continues..
69:
70: <hr>
71: <a name="status"></a>
72: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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75: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user but
76: diskless, and currently limited to serial console.
77: Also, on multiprocessor machines, the system will currently run on one processor
78: only.
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81: <a name="projects"></a>
82: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
83: </strong></font></h3>
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85: <ul>
86: <li>On-board SCSI support on series 400 and compatible models.
87: <li>Keyboard and video support.
88: <li>Test on as many different models as possible.
89: <li>Multiprocessor (SMP) support.
90: </ul>
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94: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
95:
96: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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98: <ul>
99: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
100: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
101: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
102: devices; at the moment only the on-board serial ports and ethernet are
103: supported.<br>
104: The only model tested so far is a model 410, but all the models in this series
105: should work.
106: </ul>
107:
108: <h4>Untested machines</h4>
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110: <ul>
111: <li><strong>500, 5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
112: These use a slightly different design and might work, but they are completely
113: untested.
114: </ul>
115:
116: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
117:
118: <ul>
119: <li><strong>88110-based models (550, 4500, 5500, 8500 and 9500 series)</strong><br>
120: These systems won't likely be supported until the MVME197 works in
121: <a href="mvme88k.html">mvme88k</a> land. Moreover, these will necessarily use a
122: different hardware design for which there is no documentation available at the
123: moment.
124: </ul>
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129: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
130: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
131: </font></h3>
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133: <p>
134: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
135: <a href="40.html">OpenBSD 4.0</a>.
136: Here are the
137: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
138: OpenBSD/aviion 4.0 installation instructions
139: </a>.
140:
141: <p>
142: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
143: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
144: as well as in a few
145: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
146:
147: <p>
148: Here are the
149: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
150: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
151: </a> as well.
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