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1.102 ! bentley 14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
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1.42 miod 21: OpenBSD/mvme68k runs on a large subset of Motorola's 680x0-based VME
22: motherboard family.
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1.95 deraadt 24: <p>
1.90 miod 25: <strong>The OpenBSD/mvme68k port has been discontinued after the 5.5 release.</strong>
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1.102 ! bentley 30: <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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1.33 deraadt 32: <p>
1.42 miod 33: This port was primarily done by Theo de Raadt in 1995 as a contract to
34: Willowglen Singapore. An earlier port to the MVME147 by Chuck Cranor
35: based on Paul Mackerras' old DA30 code (and using hardware donated by
36: Jonathan Levine at Theo's request) provided a solid development
37: platform.
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1.33 deraadt 39: <p>
1.68 sthen 40: Bizarrely, Dale Rahn, working for Motorola back then, also independently
1.42 miod 41: wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were
42: analyzed but more code was written from scratch by Theo, or based on the
43: hp300 code.
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1.35 deraadt 45: <p>
1.42 miod 46: Dale helped significantly during the porting to the 68040
47: models and wrote most of the code specific to the MVME167 model.
1.45 miod 48: Later, Steve Murphree continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as
1.58 miod 49: adding support for more VME devices.
1.34 deraadt 50:
1.82 miod 51: <p>
52: Support for the less commonly encountered MVME165 and MVME141 models was
53: introduced in OpenBSD 4.6.
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1.102 ! bentley 56: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
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1.35 deraadt 58: <p>
1.42 miod 59: Currently, all the boards listed in the
1.56 nick 60: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section below boot
1.42 miod 61: multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally
1.55 pedro 62: usable.
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64: <p>
65: As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola
1.49 jmc 66: VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers
1.42 miod 67: available.
1.49 jmc 68: However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available,
1.42 miod 69: allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run
1.49 jmc 70: X clients on remote display.
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1.102 ! bentley 73: <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>
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75: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
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1.74 dms 78: <li><strong>MVME141</strong> (68030)<br>
1.73 miod 79: Both VME and VSB memory boards are supported, such as MVME224 boards.
80: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 81: <li><strong>MVME147</strong> (68030)<br>
82: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
83: <li><strong>MVME162</strong> (68040)<br>
84: Almost all the on-board devices are supported, with the following exceptions:
85: <ul>
86: <li>VME bus support is untested
1.82 miod 87: <li>Parity and ECC error reporting is not supported (but memory works just fine!)
1.43 miod 88: <li>Flash driver not working
89: <li>IP module driver untested
90: </ul>
1.74 dms 91: <li><strong>MVME165</strong> (68040)<br>
1.73 miod 92: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 93: <li><strong>MVME167</strong> (68040)<br>
1.82 miod 94: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
1.73 miod 95: <li><strong>MVME172</strong> (68060)<br>
96: Works as well as the MVME162.
1.43 miod 97: <li><strong>MVME177</strong> (68060)<br>
98: Works as well as the MVME167.
99: </ul>
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101: <p>
1.73 miod 102: Faithful clones of these boards, or other Motorola models may work as well
103: (MVME166, for example).
1.43 miod 104:
105: <h4>Supported extension boards</h4>
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107: <ul>
1.71 miod 108: <li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
1.102 ! bentley 109: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/mvme68k/vsbic.4">vsbic</a>),
1.71 miod 110: currently limited to the SCSI interface
111: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
1.102 ! bentley 112: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/mvme68k/vs.4">vs</a>)
1.71 miod 113: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
1.102 ! bentley 114: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.5/mvme68k/le.4">le</a>)
1.71 miod 115: </ul>
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1.102 ! bentley 118: <h3 id="install">
1.42 miod 119: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k:</strong>
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1.42 miod 121:
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1.100 tj 123: The last supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release was
1.90 miod 124: <a href="55.html">OpenBSD 5.5</a>.
1.42 miod 125: Here are the
1.98 tb 126: <a href="https://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
1.99 tb 127: OpenBSD/mvme68k 5.5 installation instructions</a>.
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1.102 ! bentley 130: <h3 id="details"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></h3>
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1.42 miod 132: <p>
133: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place,
134: this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k
135: hardware.
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1.42 miod 137: <p>
1.51 miod 138: This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
139: controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.<br>
1.42 miod 140: <img src="images/mvme162.gif" width="637" height="468" alt="MVME162 picture">
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