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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>
1.30 michaels 24: <li>Also 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.
1.1 deraadt 60: </ul>
1.3 fn 61: </p>
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! 64: <strong>Working hardware includes:</strong>
! 65: <br>
! 66: (Drivers listed with an XXX might not work. We do not own
! 67: all the hardware listed. You must let us know if this list is incorrect,
! 68: or if a driver is broken.)
! 69: <ul>
! 70: <li> Basically all ISA, VLB, PCI, or PCMCIA machines.
! 71: <li> No support for MCA (IBM PS/2).
! 72: <p>
! 73: <li> Floppy controllers.
! 74: <li> MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
! 75: <li> Most ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drives
! 76: <p>
! 77: <li> MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.
! 78: <p>
! 79: <li> 8250/16450-based ports
! 80: <li> 16550-based ports
! 81: <li> AST-style 4-port serial boards
! 82: <li> BOCA 8-port serial cards
! 83: <li> Cyclades Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards (XXX)
! 84: <li> IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards
! 85: <li> Parallel ports.
! 86: <p>
! 87: <li> AMD LANCE and PCnet-ISA: Novell NE1500T/Novell NE2100, Kingston 21xx
! 88: <li> AMD PCnet-PCI: BOCALANcard/PCI
! 89: <li> AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
! 90: <li> 3COM 3c501
! 91: <li> 3COM 3c503
! 92: <li> 3COM 3c505
! 93: <li> 3COM 3c507
! 94: <li> 3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, and 3c9xx
! 95: <li> 3COM 3c59x (XXX)
! 96: <li> Digital DC21x4x PCI: SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!), Znyx ZX34X,
! 97: Cogent EM100, Digital DE450, Digital DE500
! 98: <li> BICC Isolan (XXX)
! 99: <li> Intel EtherExpress 16
! 100: <li> SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
! 101: <li> SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
! 102: <li> Novell NE1000, NE2000
! 103: <p>
! 104: <li> Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF, Buslogic 54x
! 105: <li> Adaptec AHA-174x
! 106: <li> Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360
! 107: <li> Adaptec AHA-294x[W] and other PCI AIC-7xxx chips/boards.
! 108: <li> BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not "FlashPoint" series)
! 109: <li> Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters
! 110: <li> Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
! 111: <li> ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885/TMC-950
! 112: <li> Most SCSI tape drives
! 113: <li> QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (XXX)
! 114: <li> Mitsumi CD-ROM drives (XXX)
! 115: <li> Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
! 116: <li> Most SCSI tape changers.
! 117: <p>
! 118: <li> "Logitech"-style bus mice
! 119: <li> "Microsoft"-style bus mice
! 120: <li> "PS/2"-style mice
! 121: <li> Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
! 122: <p>
! 123: <li> SoundBlaster
! 124: <li> Gravis Ulrasound and Ultrasound Max
! 125: <li> Personal Sound System
! 126: <li> Windows Sound System
! 127: <li> ProAudio Spectrum
! 128: <p>
! 129: <li> APM power management -- if your system supports it, turn it off!
! 130: <li> PCMCIA: most chipsets.
! 131: <li> 3COM 3c589 pcmcia ethernet
! 132: <li> WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
! 133: <li> Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters (support barely missed this release;
! 134: it works in other ports, and will work in this one in the
! 135: next release)
! 136: <li> ATM cards -- some. Mail chuck@openbsd.org to get this entry updated.
! 137: </ul>
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