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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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26: <p>
1.3 miod 27: A mailing list for m88k-based ports is available at
28: <u><font color="#23238e">m88k@openbsd.org</font></u>.
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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:
1.5 ! nick 40: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1 miod 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>
47: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
48: </ul>
49:
50: <hr>
51: <a name="history"></a>
52: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
53:
54: <p>
55: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
56: documentation for the AViiON series 400. Having a look at it, it was obvious
57: these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, already supported by
1.2 deraadt 58: <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there was no interest in working
1.1 miod 59: on AViiON support at that time.
60:
61: <p>
62: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.2 deraadt 63: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge. In two
1.1 miod 64: weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running multiuser (but
65: diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing inside the OpenBSD
66: tree. And work continues..
67:
68: <hr>
69: <a name="status"></a>
70: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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72: <p>
73: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user but
74: diskless, and currently limited to serial console.
75: Also, on multiprocessor machines, the system will currently run on one processor
76: only.
77:
78: <hr>
79: <a name="projects"></a>
80: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
81: </strong></font></h3>
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83: <ul>
84: <li>On-board SCSI support on series 400 and compatible models.
85: <li>Keyboard and video support.
86: <li>Test on as many different models as possible.
87: <li>Multiprocessor (SMP) support.
88: </ul>
89:
90: <hr>
91: <a name="hardware"></a>
92: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
93:
94: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
95:
96: <ul>
97: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
98: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
99: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
100: devices; at the moment only the on-board serial ports and ethernet are
101: supported.<br>
102: The only model tested so far is a model 410, but all the models in this series
103: should work.
104: </ul>
105:
106: <h4>Untested machines</h4>
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108: <ul>
1.4 miod 109: <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
110: These machines will be targeted soon as well. They are slightly different
111: from the above series, but not too many, and documentation is available.
112: The current code might already work to some extent.
1.1 miod 113: </ul>
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115: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
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117: <ul>
1.4 miod 118: <li><strong>5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
119: These machines may eventually run as well, but lack of on-board device support
120: could be a showstopper. Some documentation is available, but there hasn't been
121: any work towards supporting them yet.
122: <li><strong>6280 and 8000-8 series</strong><br>
123: Documentation is available, but there hasn't been any work towards supporting
124: them yet.
125: <li><strong>8500 and 9500 series, and other 88100-based models</strong><br>
126: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
127: <li><strong>88110-based models (500, 4500, 5500, 8500+ and 9500+ series)</strong><br>
1.1 miod 128: These systems won't likely be supported until the MVME197 works in
129: <a href="mvme88k.html">mvme88k</a> land. Moreover, these will necessarily use a
130: different hardware design for which there is no documentation available at the
131: moment.
132: </ul>
133:
134: <hr>
135: <a name="install"></a>
136: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
137: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
138: </font></h3>
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1.1 miod 141: <p>
142: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
143: <a href="40.html">OpenBSD 4.0</a>.
144: Here are the
145: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
146: OpenBSD/aviion 4.0 installation instructions
147: </a>.
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1.1 miod 149:
150: <p>
151: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
152: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
153: as well as in a few
154: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
155:
156: <p>
157: Here are the
158: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
159: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
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