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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
<b>"subscribe m88k"</b> to
<a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
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>
<ul>
  <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>
</font></h3>

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The latest supported OpenBSD/luna88k release is
<a href="43.html">OpenBSD 4.3</a>.
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
OpenBSD/luna88k 4.3 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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