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1.2 brad 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">macppc</font><hr></h2>
1.1 brad 17:
18: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Supported Hardware:</font></h3>
19: <p>
20: Currently only New World machines are supported.
21: To improve the list below, <b>please</b> mail your dmesg after
22: installation to <a href="mailto:dmesg@openbsd.org">dmesg@openbsd.org</a>,
23: as detailed <a href="faq/faq4.html#4.5">in the FAQ</a>.
24:
25: <p>
26: <b>Machines</b>
27: <ul>
28: <li>PowerMac G4
29: <li>PowerMac Dual G4
30: <li>PowerMac G4 Cube
31: <li>iMac Rev A
32: <li>iMac Rev B
33: <li>iMac Rev C
34: <li>iMac DV
35: <li>iMac DV+
36: <li>PowerBook G3 (FireWire)
37: <li>PowerBook G4
1.3 miod 38: <li>iBook
1.1 brad 39: <li>StarMax <i>(development in progress)</i>
40: <li>others... <i>(development in progress)</i>
41: </ul>
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43: <p>
44: <b>Onboard I/O modules</b> (obio)
45: <ul>
46: <li>Apple Paddington
47: <li>Apple Keylargo
48: </ul>
49:
50: <p>
51: <b>PCI-Bridges</b> (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchb&sektion=4">pchb</a>)
52: <ul>
53: <li>Apple Uni-North
54: <li>Apple Uni-North AGP
55: <li>Apple Uni-North Eth
56: <li>Motorola MPC106 Host-PCI
57: </ul>
58:
59: <p>
60: <b>Video Cards</b>
61: <ul>
62: <li>ATI Mach64 GP
63: <li>ATI Mach64 GV
64: <li>ATI Mach64 128 PK
65: <li>ATI Mach64 128 VR AGP
66: <li>ATI Mobility M3
67: <li>ATI Rage Fury AGP4x
68: </ul>
69:
70: <p><b>Ethernet</b>
71: <ul>
1.10 ! drahn 72: <li>DEC DECchip 21040 (Tulip) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=de&sektion=4">de</a>) Multiport versions of these cards are not supported on macppc.
! 73: <li>DEC DECchip 21143 (Tulip clones) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4">dc</a>) Multiport versions of these cards are not supported on macppc.
1.1 brad 74: <li>Apple iMac Rev. A-C Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bm&sektion=4&arch=powerpc">bm</a>)
75: <li>Apple GMAC (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gm&sektion=4&arch=powerpc">gm</a>)
76: </ul>
77:
78: <b>Wireless Ethernet Adapters</b><p>
79: <ul>
80: <li>Aironet 802.11DS PCMCIA and PCI (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=an&sektion=4">an</a>)
81: <li>WaveLAN 802.11DS PCMCIA (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi</a>)
82: </ul>
83: <p>
84:
85: <p><b>SCSI Host Adapters</b>
86: <ul>
87: <li>Symbios Logic 53c810, 53c825 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=siop&sektion=4">siop</a>)
88: </ul>
89:
90: <p><b>RAID Controllers</b>
91: <ul>
92: <li>Adaptec SCSI RAID (<a href="http://www.intelligent-io.com/">I2O</a>) controllers (ASR-2100S, ASR-3200S, etc.) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iop&sektion=4">iop</a>)
93: </ul>
94:
95: <p><b>Drives</b>
96: <ul>
97: <li>All IDE devices supported on the <a href="i386.html">i386</a>.
98: <li>All ATAPI drives supported on the <a href="i386.html">i386</a>.
99: <li>All SCSI drives supported on the <a href="i386.html">i386</a>.
100: </ul>
101:
102: <p><b>USB Controllers/Hubs</b>
103: <ul>
104: <li>Apple USB (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ohci&sektion=4">ohci</a>)
105: <li>OHCI root hub (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ohci&sektion=4">ohci</a>)
106: <li>Opti RM861HA (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ohci&sektion=4">ohci</a>)
107: <li>Alps Electric Hub in Apple USB Keyboard
108: </ul>
109:
110: <p><b>USB Devices</b>
111: <ul>
112: <li>Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ukbd&sektion=4">ukbd</a>)
113: <li>Solid Year Keyboard and Mouse (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ukbd&sektion=4">ukbd</a>) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ums&sektion=4">ums</a>)
114: <li>Logitech M4848 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ums&sektion=4">ums</a>)
115: <li>Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ums&sektion=4">ums</a>)
1.3 miod 116: <li>USB Zip Drives (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass</a>)
1.1 brad 117: </ul>
118:
1.6 jason 119: <p><b>Cryptography Devices</b>
120: <ul>
1.9 jason 121: <li>Hifn 7751/7811/7951 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hifn&sektion=4">hifn</a>)
122: <li>Bluesteelnet 5501/5601, Broadcom 5805/5820/5821 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ubsec&sektion=4">ubsec</a>)
1.6 jason 123: </ul>
124:
1.1 brad 125: <hr>
126: <p>
127: <a name="#unsup"><h3><font color=#0000e0>Unsupported Hardware:</font></h3></a>
128: <ul>
129: <li>
130: Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware
131: will likely never be supported.
132: <li>
133: At the current time, older OpenFirmware machines are not supported.
134: This is mostly due to lack of developer resources to work on the support
135: in addition to limited availability of hardware.
136: <li>On the device side, the following are recognized, but not supported:
137: <ul>
138: <li>Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 FireWire
139: </ul>
1.10 ! drahn 140: <ul>
! 141: Built-in modems on most machines are not supported. imac/G4 tower/older
! 142: PowerBook has support for the serial port which the modem is connected,
! 143: but the modem is not enabled. USB modems on newer PowerBooks are not supported.
! 144: </ul>
1.1 brad 145: </ul>
146:
147: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Shared HFS disks:</font></h3>
148: <p>
149: It is possible to share a disk between MacOS (OS X?) and OpenBSD.
150: MacOS must be installed first, and an Unused partition or other free
151: partition can then be used to install OpenBSD.
152: If a shared disk is to be used and be bootable, the bootloader "ofwboot"
153: must be copied onto the first HFS partition.
154: It is unknown if Openfirmware can load the OpenBSD bootloader from the
155: MacOS X FFS partition.
1.2 brad 156: See INSTALL.macppc for more details on how to install a shared disk.
1.1 brad 157:
158: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Root Drive:</font></h3>
159: <p>
160: With multiple drives installed in the system, only certain drives can
161: be configured as an OpenBSD root drive. Any other configurations than
162: those below will not be able to properly detect which drive is the root
163: drive, and so any attempt with either prompt for a root drive, or fail.
164: <p>
165: <ul>
166: <li><tt>ultra0</tt> is always fine to use as an root drive.
167: <li><tt>ultra1</tt> is fine to use as a root disk (as long as <tt>ultra0</tt>
168: is a hard drive, not ATAPI).
169: <li>If no hard drive is located at <tt>ultra1</tt>, it is possible to use a
170: hard drive configured as <tt>ide1</tt> (zip bay) as root drive.
171: <li>It is not possible to use <tt>ide0</tt> (CD-ROM) as a root drive unless
172: no drives are connected to the Ultra IDE bus.
173: </ul>
174:
175: <h3><font color="#0000e0">X Resolution:</font></h3>
176: <p>
177: The current X server has no mechanism to change the resolution
178: of the display. To change the resolution, it is necessary to boot MacOS
179: and change to the desired resolution under MacOS. It will save that
180: resolution and OpenFirmware will boot in that resolution until connected
181: to a different monitor. The X server will run in whatever resolution
182: OpenFirmware boots in.
183:
184: <hr>
185: <p>If you are looking for to test new pre-release features, you can
1.2 brad 186: try one of the snapshots.
187: For the macppc architecture, <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/macppc">snapshots</a> are made available from time to time.
1.1 brad 188:
189: <h3><font color="#0000e0">History:</font></h3>
190: <p>
191: The powerpc port was first imported into OpenBSD at the end of 1996.
192: Portions of the kernel came from the NetBSD/macppc port, and the
193: userland and build pieces came from
194: <a href="mailto:drahn@openbsd.org">Dale Rahn</a>.
195:
196: <p>
197: Dale added ELF binary support, and then work with Per Fogelstrom
198: continued on general driver support for the next few releases.
199: Support was added for OpenFirmware, VI Power4e boards, MCG Powerstack
200: machines, DEC 21040, VGA terminal support, and so on.
201:
202: <p>
203: In 1998, the focus shifted towards the Apple machines, and Dale Rahn
204: started work to make the range of iMacs and PowerMacs work with this port.
205: Due to this, official powerpc releases were not made for the 2.6 and 2.7
206: releases as work continued. A number of compiler loader issues were resolved,
207: iMac driver support was added, and compatibility with older systems
208: was withdrawn to fully concentrate on the Apple machines.
209:
210: <p>
211: OpenBSD/powerpc 2.8 supported Apple hardware.
212:
213: <p>
214: For 2.9, powerpc has moved to UVM, this change has fixed the
215: corrupted shared library "pmap" bug that was rather pervasive for 2.8.
216:
217: <p>
1.2 brad 218: For 3.0, the powerpc port has been renamed to macppc.
219:
220: <p>
1.1 brad 221:
222: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
1.10 ! drahn 223: The adb keyboard driver, on the iBook and Titanium PowerBook G4,
1.1 brad 224: has problems such that some keystrokes can cause crashes. This
225: problem is mostly constrained to multiple keypresses involving the
226: <code>Fn</code> key. Also note that <CTRL><CMD><POWER> will
227: reset the machine.
1.5 miod 228: </p>
1.1 brad 229: <hr>
1.5 miod 230: <p>
1.1 brad 231: Contact
232: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a> or
233: <a href="mailto:drahn@openbsd.org">Dale Rahn</a>
234: if you are interested in working with other people on this, or need more
235: information.
236: </p>
237:
1.5 miod 238: <p>
239: A mailing list for users and developers exists at
240: <a href="mailto:ppc@openbsd.org">ppc@openbsd.org</a>.
241: To join the OpenBSD/macppc mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
242: ppc"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>.
243: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
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