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1.1 deraadt 16: <h2>OpenBSD/i386</h2>
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19: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.2 deraadt 22: The i386 port has some architecture specific changes from the
23: NetBSD/i386 port, but the major ones are:
1.1 deraadt 24: <ul>
1.3 fn 25: <li>the addition of ISA bounce buffer support so that ISA scsi cards (ie.
1.11 deraadt 26: Adaptec 1542) can be used in machines with more than 16MB of memory.
1.4 deraadt 27: <li>The same one GENERIC kernel works on all machines, whether it has
1.11 deraadt 28: BusLogic or Adaptec scsi cards.
1.4 deraadt 29: <li>some APM and PCMCIA support (3c589, NE2000-clone, and COM ports)
30: <li>some DDB improvements
31: <li>OPTI mcd support
32: <li>ATAPI cdrom support
33: <li>P5/P6 improved NTP support
34: <li>pccons has userland replaceable keymaps, and screen blanking
35: <li>boot "-a" support like other ports (asks for root partition)
1.11 deraadt 36: <li>floppy disk formatting
1.7 deraadt 37: <li>Cyclades Cyclom serial driver
1.11 deraadt 38: <li>faster (assembly) IP checksumming (typically 20% faster, up to 62% faster
39: in some cases)
1.8 deraadt 40: <li>vmstat -i prints information.
1.11 deraadt 41: <li>latest rev of adaptec 2940 driver
42: <li>supports "ep* at port ? irq ?"
1.12 deraadt 43: <li>faster i386-specific `pccom' device driver.
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