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1.1       deraadt    15: <h2>OpenBSD/i386</h2>
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                     18: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.26      deraadt    21: The i386 port has quite a few architecture specific changes from the
1.2       deraadt    22: NetBSD/i386 port, but the major ones are:
1.1       deraadt    23: <ul>
1.29    ! deraadt    24: <li>Runs on machines with 512MB of ram or more, does not crash.
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)
1.18      deraadt    40: <li>vmstat -i prints interrupt information.
                     41: <li>latest rev of adaptec 2940 driver from FreeBSD
1.11      deraadt    42: <li>supports "ep* at port ? irq ?"
1.12      deraadt    43: <li>faster i386-specific `pccom' device driver.
1.19      deraadt    44: <li>/dev/pctr pseudo-device & program for accessing the Pentium and PentiumPro
1.18      deraadt    45:        performance counters.
1.15      deraadt    46: <li>Fixed major i386 kernel interrupt race.
                     47: <li>Fixed UCONSOLE security hole without breaking xconsole.
                     48: <li>Much faster i387-specific libm available for those who want the option.
1.17      deraadt    49: <li>ISA Plug-and-Play support
1.21      deraadt    50: <li>the GPL FP emulator from Linux/Freebsd, for users who want to use it.
                     51:        Much better!
1.28      deraadt    52: <li>Prefer partition type 166, so that OpenBSD can co-reside on the same
                     53:        disk as a 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD install.
                     54: <li>Attempt to fault in a ptp; this avoids two ptp panic cases.
                     55: <li>RAW_PART is now 'c', not 'd'. It should start at 0, and cover your whole
                     56:        disk.
1.29    ! deraadt    57: <li>Updated ncr driver, much more performance.
        !            58: <li>3c59x and 3c9xx cards work.
        !            59: <li>Can mount DOS file systems with cluster size > 16KB.
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1.27      deraadt    65: <a href=ftp.html>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>
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1.1       deraadt    69: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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