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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>
1.16      deraadt    25: <li>Runs on machines with 64MB of ram or more.
1.3       fn         26: <li>the addition of ISA bounce buffer support so that ISA scsi cards (ie.
1.11      deraadt    27:        Adaptec 1542) can be used in machines with more than 16MB of memory.
1.4       deraadt    28: <li>The same one GENERIC kernel works on all machines, whether it has
1.11      deraadt    29:        BusLogic or Adaptec scsi cards.
1.4       deraadt    30: <li>some APM and PCMCIA support (3c589, NE2000-clone, and COM ports)
                     31: <li>some DDB improvements
                     32: <li>OPTI mcd support
                     33: <li>ATAPI cdrom support
                     34: <li>P5/P6 improved NTP support
                     35: <li>pccons has userland replaceable keymaps, and screen blanking
                     36: <li>boot "-a" support like other ports (asks for root partition)
1.11      deraadt    37: <li>floppy disk formatting
1.7       deraadt    38: <li>Cyclades Cyclom serial driver
1.11      deraadt    39: <li>faster (assembly) IP checksumming (typically 20% faster, up to 62% faster
                     40:        in some cases)
1.18      deraadt    41: <li>vmstat -i prints interrupt information.
                     42: <li>latest rev of adaptec 2940 driver from FreeBSD
1.11      deraadt    43: <li>supports "ep* at port ? irq ?"
1.12      deraadt    44: <li>faster i386-specific `pccom' device driver.
1.19    ! deraadt    45: <li>/dev/pctr pseudo-device & program for accessing the Pentium and PentiumPro
1.18      deraadt    46:        performance counters.
1.15      deraadt    47: <li>Fixed major i386 kernel interrupt race.
                     48: <li>Fixed UCONSOLE security hole without breaking xconsole.
                     49: <li>Much faster i387-specific libm available for those who want the option.
1.17      deraadt    50: <li>ISA Plug-and-Play support
1.1       deraadt    51: </ul>
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1.14      deraadt    56: <a href=index.html#snapshots>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>
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1.1       deraadt    60: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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