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1.42 miod 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k</font></h2>
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1.42 miod 20: OpenBSD/mvme68k runs on a large subset of Motorola's 680x0-based VME
21: motherboard family.
1.87 miod 22:
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1.90 miod 24: <strong>The OpenBSD/mvme68k port has been discontinued after the 5.5 release.</strong>
1.87 miod 25: </p>
1.1 deraadt 26:
1.66 nick 27: <a name="toc"></a>
1.42 miod 28: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 29: <p>
1.33 deraadt 30: <ul>
1.47 jufi 31: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.42 miod 32: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
1.56 nick 33: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.42 miod 34: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k</a>
35: <li><a href="#details">Hardware details</a>
1.33 deraadt 36: </ul>
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1.42 miod 38: <hr>
39: <a name="history"></a>
40: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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1.33 deraadt 42: <p>
1.42 miod 43: This port was primarily done by Theo de Raadt in 1995 as a contract to
44: Willowglen Singapore. An earlier port to the MVME147 by Chuck Cranor
45: based on Paul Mackerras' old DA30 code (and using hardware donated by
46: Jonathan Levine at Theo's request) provided a solid development
47: platform.
1.1 deraadt 48:
1.33 deraadt 49: <p>
1.68 sthen 50: Bizarrely, Dale Rahn, working for Motorola back then, also independently
1.42 miod 51: wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were
52: analyzed but more code was written from scratch by Theo, or based on the
53: hp300 code.
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1.35 deraadt 55: <p>
1.42 miod 56: Dale helped significantly during the porting to the 68040
57: models and wrote most of the code specific to the MVME167 model.
1.45 miod 58: Later, Steve Murphree continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as
1.58 miod 59: adding support for more VME devices.
1.34 deraadt 60:
1.82 miod 61: <p>
62: Support for the less commonly encountered MVME165 and MVME141 models was
63: introduced in OpenBSD 4.6.
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1.42 miod 65: <hr>
66: <a name="status"></a>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 68:
1.35 deraadt 69: <p>
1.42 miod 70: Currently, all the boards listed in the
1.56 nick 71: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section below boot
1.42 miod 72: multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally
1.55 pedro 73: usable.
1.42 miod 74:
75: <p>
76: As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola
1.49 jmc 77: VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers
1.42 miod 78: available.
1.49 jmc 79: However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available,
1.42 miod 80: allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run
1.49 jmc 81: X clients on remote display.
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1.43 miod 84: <a name="hardware"></a>
85: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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87: <p>
88: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
89:
90: <p>
91: <ul>
1.74 dms 92: <li><strong>MVME141</strong> (68030)<br>
1.73 miod 93: Both VME and VSB memory boards are supported, such as MVME224 boards.
94: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 95: <li><strong>MVME147</strong> (68030)<br>
96: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
97: <li><strong>MVME162</strong> (68040)<br>
98: Almost all the on-board devices are supported, with the following exceptions:
99: <ul>
100: <li>VME bus support is untested
1.82 miod 101: <li>Parity and ECC error reporting is not supported (but memory works just fine!)
1.43 miod 102: <li>Flash driver not working
103: <li>IP module driver untested
104: </ul>
1.74 dms 105: <li><strong>MVME165</strong> (68040)<br>
1.73 miod 106: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 107: <li><strong>MVME167</strong> (68040)<br>
1.82 miod 108: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
1.73 miod 109: <li><strong>MVME172</strong> (68060)<br>
110: Works as well as the MVME162.
1.43 miod 111: <li><strong>MVME177</strong> (68060)<br>
112: Works as well as the MVME167.
113: </ul>
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115: <p>
1.73 miod 116: Faithful clones of these boards, or other Motorola models may work as well
117: (MVME166, for example).
1.43 miod 118:
119: <p>
120: <h4>Supported extension boards</h4>
121:
122: <p>
123: <ul>
1.71 miod 124: <li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
1.90 miod 125: (<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 126: currently limited to the SCSI interface
127: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
1.90 miod 128: (<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 129: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
1.90 miod 130: (<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 131: </ul>
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133: <hr>
1.42 miod 134: <a name="install"></a>
135: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
136: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k:</strong>
137: </font></h3>
138:
139: <p>
1.90 miod 140: The last supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release is
141: <a href="55.html">OpenBSD 5.5</a>.
1.42 miod 142: Here are the
1.90 miod 143: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
144: OpenBSD/mvme68k 5.5 installation instructions
1.42 miod 145: </a>.
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1.46 miod 148: <a name="details"></a>
1.42 miod 149: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
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1.42 miod 151: <p>
152: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place,
153: this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k
154: hardware.
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1.51 miod 157: This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
158: controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.<br>
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