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1.42 miod 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k</font></h2>
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1.42 miod 22: OpenBSD/mvme68k runs on a large subset of Motorola's 680x0-based VME
23: motherboard family.
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1.66 nick 25: <a name="toc"></a>
1.42 miod 26: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 27: <p>
1.33 deraadt 28: <ul>
1.47 jufi 29: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.42 miod 30: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
31: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
1.56 nick 32: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.42 miod 33: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k</a>
34: <li><a href="#details">Hardware details</a>
1.33 deraadt 35: </ul>
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1.42 miod 37: <hr>
38: <a name="history"></a>
39: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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1.33 deraadt 41: <p>
1.42 miod 42: This port was primarily done by Theo de Raadt in 1995 as a contract to
43: Willowglen Singapore. An earlier port to the MVME147 by Chuck Cranor
44: based on Paul Mackerras' old DA30 code (and using hardware donated by
45: Jonathan Levine at Theo's request) provided a solid development
46: platform.
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1.33 deraadt 48: <p>
1.68 sthen 49: Bizarrely, Dale Rahn, working for Motorola back then, also independently
1.42 miod 50: wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were
51: analyzed but more code was written from scratch by Theo, or based on the
52: hp300 code.
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1.35 deraadt 54: <p>
1.42 miod 55: Dale helped significantly during the porting to the 68040
56: models and wrote most of the code specific to the MVME167 model.
1.45 miod 57: Later, Steve Murphree continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as
1.58 miod 58: adding support for more VME devices.
1.34 deraadt 59:
1.82 miod 60: <p>
61: Support for the less commonly encountered MVME165 and MVME141 models was
62: introduced in OpenBSD 4.6.
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1.42 miod 64: <hr>
65: <a name="status"></a>
66: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 67:
1.35 deraadt 68: <p>
1.42 miod 69: Currently, all the boards listed in the
1.56 nick 70: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section below boot
1.42 miod 71: multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally
1.55 pedro 72: usable.
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74: <p>
75: As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola
1.49 jmc 76: VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers
1.42 miod 77: available.
1.49 jmc 78: However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available,
1.42 miod 79: allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run
1.49 jmc 80: X clients on remote display.
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1.42 miod 82: <hr>
83: <a name="projects"></a>
84: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Project list (in no particular order):
85: </strong></font></h3>
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87: <p>
1.42 miod 88: <ul>
1.73 miod 89: <li>Work on unsupported device cards (such as MVME374)
1.42 miod 90: </ul>
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92: <hr>
1.43 miod 93: <a name="hardware"></a>
94: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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96: <p>
97: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
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99: <p>
100: <ul>
1.74 dms 101: <li><strong>MVME141</strong> (68030)<br>
1.73 miod 102: Both VME and VSB memory boards are supported, such as MVME224 boards.
103: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 104: <li><strong>MVME147</strong> (68030)<br>
105: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
106: <li><strong>MVME162</strong> (68040)<br>
107: Almost all the on-board devices are supported, with the following exceptions:
108: <ul>
109: <li>VME bus support is untested
1.82 miod 110: <li>Parity and ECC error reporting is not supported (but memory works just fine!)
1.43 miod 111: <li>Flash driver not working
112: <li>IP module driver untested
113: </ul>
1.74 dms 114: <li><strong>MVME165</strong> (68040)<br>
1.73 miod 115: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 116: <li><strong>MVME167</strong> (68040)<br>
1.82 miod 117: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
1.73 miod 118: <li><strong>MVME172</strong> (68060)<br>
119: Works as well as the MVME162.
1.43 miod 120: <li><strong>MVME177</strong> (68060)<br>
121: Works as well as the MVME167.
122: </ul>
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124: <p>
1.73 miod 125: Faithful clones of these boards, or other Motorola models may work as well
126: (MVME166, for example).
1.43 miod 127:
128: <p>
129: <h4>Supported extension boards</h4>
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131: <p>
132: <ul>
1.71 miod 133: <li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
134: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vsbic&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vsbic</a>),
135: currently limited to the SCSI interface
136: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
137: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vs&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vs</a>)
138: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
139: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">le</a>)
140: </ul>
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1.42 miod 143: <a name="install"></a>
144: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
145: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k:</strong>
146: </font></h3>
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148: <p>
149: The latest supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release is
1.85 sthen 150: <a href="54.html">OpenBSD 5.4</a>.
1.42 miod 151: Here are the
1.85 sthen 152: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.4/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
153: OpenBSD/mvme68k 5.4 installation instructions
1.42 miod 154: </a>.
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156: <p>
157: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.84 sthen 158: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme68k">this location</a>
1.42 miod 159: as well as in a few
160: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
161: Here are the
1.84 sthen 162: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
1.42 miod 163: OpenBSD/mvme68k snapshot installation instructions
164: </a> as well.
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1.46 miod 167: <a name="details"></a>
1.42 miod 168: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
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1.42 miod 170: <p>
171: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place,
172: this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k
173: hardware.
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1.51 miod 176: This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
177: controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.<br>
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