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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.
1.87 ! miod 24:
! 25: <p>
! 26: <strong>The OpenBSD/mvme68k port will be discontinued after the 5.5 release.</strong>
! 27: </p>
1.1 deraadt 28:
1.66 nick 29: <a name="toc"></a>
1.42 miod 30: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 31: <p>
1.33 deraadt 32: <ul>
1.47 jufi 33: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.42 miod 34: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
35: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
1.56 nick 36: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.42 miod 37: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k</a>
38: <li><a href="#details">Hardware details</a>
1.33 deraadt 39: </ul>
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1.42 miod 41: <hr>
42: <a name="history"></a>
43: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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1.33 deraadt 45: <p>
1.42 miod 46: This port was primarily done by Theo de Raadt in 1995 as a contract to
47: Willowglen Singapore. An earlier port to the MVME147 by Chuck Cranor
48: based on Paul Mackerras' old DA30 code (and using hardware donated by
49: Jonathan Levine at Theo's request) provided a solid development
50: platform.
1.1 deraadt 51:
1.33 deraadt 52: <p>
1.68 sthen 53: Bizarrely, Dale Rahn, working for Motorola back then, also independently
1.42 miod 54: wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were
55: analyzed but more code was written from scratch by Theo, or based on the
56: hp300 code.
1.1 deraadt 57:
1.35 deraadt 58: <p>
1.42 miod 59: Dale helped significantly during the porting to the 68040
60: models and wrote most of the code specific to the MVME167 model.
1.45 miod 61: Later, Steve Murphree continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as
1.58 miod 62: adding support for more VME devices.
1.34 deraadt 63:
1.82 miod 64: <p>
65: Support for the less commonly encountered MVME165 and MVME141 models was
66: introduced in OpenBSD 4.6.
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1.42 miod 68: <hr>
69: <a name="status"></a>
70: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.35 deraadt 72: <p>
1.42 miod 73: Currently, all the boards listed in the
1.56 nick 74: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section below boot
1.42 miod 75: multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally
1.55 pedro 76: usable.
1.42 miod 77:
78: <p>
79: As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola
1.49 jmc 80: VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers
1.42 miod 81: available.
1.49 jmc 82: However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available,
1.42 miod 83: allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run
1.49 jmc 84: X clients on remote display.
1.35 deraadt 85:
1.42 miod 86: <hr>
87: <a name="projects"></a>
88: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Project list (in no particular order):
89: </strong></font></h3>
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91: <p>
1.42 miod 92: <ul>
1.73 miod 93: <li>Work on unsupported device cards (such as MVME374)
1.42 miod 94: </ul>
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96: <hr>
1.43 miod 97: <a name="hardware"></a>
98: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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100: <p>
101: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
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103: <p>
104: <ul>
1.74 dms 105: <li><strong>MVME141</strong> (68030)<br>
1.73 miod 106: Both VME and VSB memory boards are supported, such as MVME224 boards.
107: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 108: <li><strong>MVME147</strong> (68030)<br>
109: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
110: <li><strong>MVME162</strong> (68040)<br>
111: Almost all the on-board devices are supported, with the following exceptions:
112: <ul>
113: <li>VME bus support is untested
1.82 miod 114: <li>Parity and ECC error reporting is not supported (but memory works just fine!)
1.43 miod 115: <li>Flash driver not working
116: <li>IP module driver untested
117: </ul>
1.74 dms 118: <li><strong>MVME165</strong> (68040)<br>
1.73 miod 119: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 120: <li><strong>MVME167</strong> (68040)<br>
1.82 miod 121: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
1.73 miod 122: <li><strong>MVME172</strong> (68060)<br>
123: Works as well as the MVME162.
1.43 miod 124: <li><strong>MVME177</strong> (68060)<br>
125: Works as well as the MVME167.
126: </ul>
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128: <p>
1.73 miod 129: Faithful clones of these boards, or other Motorola models may work as well
130: (MVME166, for example).
1.43 miod 131:
132: <p>
133: <h4>Supported extension boards</h4>
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135: <p>
136: <ul>
1.71 miod 137: <li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
138: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vsbic&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vsbic</a>),
139: currently limited to the SCSI interface
140: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
141: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vs&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vs</a>)
142: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
143: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">le</a>)
144: </ul>
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1.42 miod 147: <a name="install"></a>
148: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
149: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k:</strong>
150: </font></h3>
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152: <p>
153: The latest supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release is
1.85 sthen 154: <a href="54.html">OpenBSD 5.4</a>.
1.42 miod 155: Here are the
1.85 sthen 156: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.4/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
157: OpenBSD/mvme68k 5.4 installation instructions
1.42 miod 158: </a>.
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160: <p>
161: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.84 sthen 162: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme68k">this location</a>
1.42 miod 163: as well as in a few
164: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
165: Here are the
1.84 sthen 166: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
1.42 miod 167: OpenBSD/mvme68k snapshot installation instructions
168: </a> as well.
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170: <hr>
1.46 miod 171: <a name="details"></a>
1.42 miod 172: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
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1.42 miod 174: <p>
175: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place,
176: this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k
177: hardware.
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1.42 miod 179: <p>
1.51 miod 180: This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
181: controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.<br>
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