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<h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k</font></h2>

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OpenBSD/luna88k is an effort to port OpenBSD to the
<a href="http://www.omron.com">OMRON</a> LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations.

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A mailing list for m88k-based ports is available at
<u><font color="#23238e">m88k@openbsd.org</font></u>.
To join the OpenBSD/m88k mailing list, send a message body of
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Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
subscribing.

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The current port maintainer is Kenji Aoyama
(<a href="mailto:aoyama@openbsd.org">aoyama@openbsd.org</a>), with the help of
Miod Vallat. Others are definitely welcome to contribute!

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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  <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
  <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
  <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
  <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
  <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/luna88k</a>
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>

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The LUNA workstation family was manufactured by
<a href="http://www.omron.com">OMRON corporation</a> in the early 1990s.
After several models based upon the Motorola 680x0 family,
the last designs were multiprocessor systems based upon the
Motorola 88100 processor.

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Kenji Aoyama wanted to run a modern operating system on his LUNA-88K2 and
eventually got tired of waiting for someone else to do this effort, so he
started to merge the
<a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/luna68k/">NetBSD/luna68k</a> device
support with the
<a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a> hardware support in January 2002.
His efforts were eventually successful and his machine booted multi-user near
the end of 2003.

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>

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Both Luna-88k and Luna-88k2 models are supported, and will boot multi-user.
Most of the on-board devices are supported, but the system will currently
run on one processor only.

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
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<ul>
  <li>Better mouse support, and X server.
  <li>Multiprocessor (SMP) support.
  <li>Support for the remaining unsupported devices (extra serial ports,
      external floppy port, NEC PC-98 C-bus...)
</ul>

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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>

<h4>Supported machines</h4>

<ul>
<li><strong>LUNA-88K</strong><br>
The first 88100-based LUNA workstation, with one to four 25 MHz processors,
and 16 to 64 MB of memory depending upon the model.
<li><strong>LUNA-88K2</strong><br>
An improved version of the previous design, with one to four 33 MHz processors,
16 to 112 MB of memory, and more on-board devices.
</ul>

<h4>Supported on-board devices</h4>

<ul>
<li>On-board console serial port (siotty)
<li>On-board LANCE Ethernet interface
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=luna88k">le</a>)
<li>On-board SCSI controllers
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spc&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=luna88k">spc</a>)
<li>LCD display on front panel
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lcd&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=luna88k">lcd</a>)
<li>Keyboard, mouse and frame buffer (suitable as a console too)
</ul>

<h4>Unsupported devices</h4>

<ul>
<li>On-board non-console serial ports (tty00, tty01)
<li>On-board printer port (lp)
<li>On-board floppy port (rfd)
<li>NEC PC-98 slot
</ul>

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<strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/luna88k:</strong>
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The latest supported OpenBSD/luna88k release is
<a href="41.html">OpenBSD 4.1</a>.
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
OpenBSD/luna88k 4.1 installation instructions
</a>.

<p>
Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/luna88k">this location</a>
as well as in a few
<a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.

<p>
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
OpenBSD/luna88k snapshot installation instructions
</a> as well.

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Due to hardware problems, the 4.2 release could not be built. However, the
latest snapshot available is very close to the release and can be considered
as stable as the release would have been.

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