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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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1.90 ! miod 26: <strong>The OpenBSD/mvme68k port has been discontinued after the 5.5 release.</strong>
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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>
1.56 nick 35: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.42 miod 36: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k</a>
37: <li><a href="#details">Hardware details</a>
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41: <a name="history"></a>
42: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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1.42 miod 45: This port was primarily done by Theo de Raadt in 1995 as a contract to
46: Willowglen Singapore. An earlier port to the MVME147 by Chuck Cranor
47: based on Paul Mackerras' old DA30 code (and using hardware donated by
48: Jonathan Levine at Theo's request) provided a solid development
49: platform.
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1.68 sthen 52: Bizarrely, Dale Rahn, working for Motorola back then, also independently
1.42 miod 53: wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were
54: analyzed but more code was written from scratch by Theo, or based on the
55: hp300 code.
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1.35 deraadt 57: <p>
1.42 miod 58: Dale helped significantly during the porting to the 68040
59: models and wrote most of the code specific to the MVME167 model.
1.45 miod 60: Later, Steve Murphree continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as
1.58 miod 61: adding support for more VME devices.
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1.82 miod 63: <p>
64: Support for the less commonly encountered MVME165 and MVME141 models was
65: introduced in OpenBSD 4.6.
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68: <a name="status"></a>
69: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.42 miod 72: Currently, all the boards listed in the
1.56 nick 73: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section below boot
1.42 miod 74: multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally
1.55 pedro 75: usable.
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78: As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola
1.49 jmc 79: VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers
1.42 miod 80: available.
1.49 jmc 81: However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available,
1.42 miod 82: allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run
1.49 jmc 83: X clients on remote display.
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1.43 miod 86: <a name="hardware"></a>
87: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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89: <p>
90: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
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92: <p>
93: <ul>
1.74 dms 94: <li><strong>MVME141</strong> (68030)<br>
1.73 miod 95: Both VME and VSB memory boards are supported, such as MVME224 boards.
96: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 97: <li><strong>MVME147</strong> (68030)<br>
98: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
99: <li><strong>MVME162</strong> (68040)<br>
100: Almost all the on-board devices are supported, with the following exceptions:
101: <ul>
102: <li>VME bus support is untested
1.82 miod 103: <li>Parity and ECC error reporting is not supported (but memory works just fine!)
1.43 miod 104: <li>Flash driver not working
105: <li>IP module driver untested
106: </ul>
1.74 dms 107: <li><strong>MVME165</strong> (68040)<br>
1.73 miod 108: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 109: <li><strong>MVME167</strong> (68040)<br>
1.82 miod 110: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
1.73 miod 111: <li><strong>MVME172</strong> (68060)<br>
112: Works as well as the MVME162.
1.43 miod 113: <li><strong>MVME177</strong> (68060)<br>
114: Works as well as the MVME167.
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1.73 miod 118: Faithful clones of these boards, or other Motorola models may work as well
119: (MVME166, for example).
1.43 miod 120:
121: <p>
122: <h4>Supported extension boards</h4>
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124: <p>
125: <ul>
1.71 miod 126: <li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
1.90 ! miod 127: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vsbic&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vsbic</a>),
1.71 miod 128: currently limited to the SCSI interface
129: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
1.90 ! miod 130: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vs&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vs</a>)
1.71 miod 131: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
1.90 ! miod 132: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">le</a>)
1.71 miod 133: </ul>
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1.42 miod 136: <a name="install"></a>
137: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
138: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k:</strong>
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1.90 ! miod 142: The last supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release is
! 143: <a href="55.html">OpenBSD 5.5</a>.
1.42 miod 144: Here are the
1.90 ! miod 145: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
! 146: OpenBSD/mvme68k 5.5 installation instructions
1.42 miod 147: </a>.
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1.46 miod 150: <a name="details"></a>
1.42 miod 151: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
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154: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place,
155: this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k
156: hardware.
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1.51 miod 159: This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
160: controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.<br>
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