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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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1.1 miod 36: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
37: <ul>
38: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
39: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
40: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
41: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
42: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion</a>
43: </ul>
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45: <hr>
46: <a name="history"></a>
47: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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49: <p>
50: In September 2003, Chris Tribo published some excerpts of the technical
51: documentation for the AViiON series 400. Having a look at it, it was obvious
52: these systems were built upon a modified MVME188 design, already supported by
1.2 deraadt 53: <a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>, but there was no interest in working
1.1 miod 54: on AViiON support at that time.
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57: Then, late April 2006, enough boredom convinced Miod Vallat to start a port,
1.2 deraadt 58: even though he did not have access to any AViiON hardware, as a challenge. In two
1.1 miod 59: weeks, thanks to the help of Chris Tribo, a model 410 was running multiuser (but
60: diskless) - a proof that this effort was worth continuing inside the OpenBSD
61: tree. And work continues..
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64: <a name="status"></a>
65: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.9 ! miod 68: All supported models (or with similar designs) should run multi-user (some of
! 69: them do not support the onboard SCSI controller yet and need to run diskless),
! 70: and currently limited to serial console. There isn't any disk bootloader yet,
! 71: so the kernel has to be netbooted.
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74: <a name="projects"></a>
75: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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1.9 ! miod 79: <li>Disk bootloader.
1.1 miod 80: <li>On-board SCSI support on series 400 and compatible models.
81: <li>Keyboard and video support.
82: <li>Test on as many different models as possible.
83: </ul>
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86: <a name="hardware"></a>
87: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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89: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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91: <ul>
92: <li><strong>100, 200, 300, 400, 3000, 4000 and 4300 series</strong><br>
93: These are the machines initially targetted by this port.
94: Their design is close to the well-known MVME188 design, with different on-board
95: devices; at the moment only the on-board serial ports and ethernet are
96: supported.<br>
1.6 miod 97: The only models tested so far are models 410 and 4300, but all the models in
98: this series should work.
1.9 ! miod 99: <li><strong>4600 and 530 series</strong><br>
! 100: These machines are slightly different from the above series, but not too much,
! 101: and documentation is available.<br>
! 102: Both the on-board SCSI controller and the on-board network interface are
! 103: supported, but there are no disk boot blocks yet.
1.1 miod 104: </ul>
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113: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
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1.4 miod 116: <li><strong>5000 and 6000 series</strong><br>
117: These machines may eventually run as well, but lack of on-board device support
1.9 ! miod 118: might be a showstopper. Some documentation is available, but there hasn't been
1.4 miod 119: any work towards supporting them yet.
120: <li><strong>6280 and 8000-8 series</strong><br>
121: Documentation is available, but there hasn't been any work towards supporting
122: them yet.
123: <li><strong>8500 and 9500 series, and other 88100-based models</strong><br>
124: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
125: <li><strong>88110-based models (500, 4500, 5500, 8500+ and 9500+ series)</strong><br>
1.6 miod 126: These systems won't likely be supported unless documentation for them is found.
1.1 miod 127: </ul>
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130: <a name="install"></a>
131: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
132: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/aviion:</strong>
133: </font></h3>
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137: The latest supported OpenBSD/aviion release is
1.6 miod 138: <a href="42.html">OpenBSD 4.2</a>.
1.1 miod 139: Here are the
1.8 sthen 140: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.6 miod 141: OpenBSD/aviion 4.2 installation instructions
1.1 miod 142: </a>.
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1.1 miod 144:
145: <p>
146: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.8 sthen 147: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion">this location</a>
1.1 miod 148: as well as in a few
149: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
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152: Here are the
1.8 sthen 153: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.1 miod 154: OpenBSD/aviion snapshot installation instructions
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