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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.
1.95 ! deraadt 22: <p>
1.87 miod 23:
1.90 miod 24: <strong>The OpenBSD/mvme68k port has been discontinued after the 5.5 release.</strong>
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1.42 miod 29: <a name="history"></a>
30: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></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.
1.1 deraadt 38:
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.
1.1 deraadt 44:
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.
54:
1.42 miod 55: <hr>
56: <a name="status"></a>
57: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 58:
1.35 deraadt 59: <p>
1.42 miod 60: Currently, all the boards listed in the
1.56 nick 61: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section below boot
1.42 miod 62: multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally
1.55 pedro 63: usable.
1.42 miod 64:
65: <p>
66: As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola
1.49 jmc 67: VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers
1.42 miod 68: available.
1.49 jmc 69: However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available,
1.42 miod 70: allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run
1.49 jmc 71: X clients on remote display.
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1.43 miod 74: <a name="hardware"></a>
75: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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77: <p>
78: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
79:
80: <p>
81: <ul>
1.74 dms 82: <li><strong>MVME141</strong> (68030)<br>
1.73 miod 83: Both VME and VSB memory boards are supported, such as MVME224 boards.
84: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 85: <li><strong>MVME147</strong> (68030)<br>
86: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
87: <li><strong>MVME162</strong> (68040)<br>
88: Almost all the on-board devices are supported, with the following exceptions:
89: <ul>
90: <li>VME bus support is untested
1.82 miod 91: <li>Parity and ECC error reporting is not supported (but memory works just fine!)
1.43 miod 92: <li>Flash driver not working
93: <li>IP module driver untested
94: </ul>
1.74 dms 95: <li><strong>MVME165</strong> (68040)<br>
1.73 miod 96: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the VSB controller.
1.43 miod 97: <li><strong>MVME167</strong> (68040)<br>
1.82 miod 98: All the on-board devices are supported, except for the parallel port.
1.73 miod 99: <li><strong>MVME172</strong> (68060)<br>
100: Works as well as the MVME162.
1.43 miod 101: <li><strong>MVME177</strong> (68060)<br>
102: Works as well as the MVME167.
103: </ul>
104:
105: <p>
1.73 miod 106: Faithful clones of these boards, or other Motorola models may work as well
107: (MVME166, for example).
1.43 miod 108:
109: <p>
110: <h4>Supported extension boards</h4>
111:
112: <p>
113: <ul>
1.71 miod 114: <li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
1.94 sthen 115: (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=vsbic&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vsbic</a>),
1.71 miod 116: currently limited to the SCSI interface
117: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
1.94 sthen 118: (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=vs&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">vs</a>)
1.71 miod 119: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
1.94 sthen 120: (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=le&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5&sektion=4&arch=mvme68k">le</a>)
1.71 miod 121: </ul>
1.43 miod 122:
123: <hr>
1.42 miod 124: <a name="install"></a>
125: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
126: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme68k:</strong>
127: </font></h3>
128:
129: <p>
1.90 miod 130: The last supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release is
131: <a href="55.html">OpenBSD 5.5</a>.
1.42 miod 132: Here are the
1.90 miod 133: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
134: OpenBSD/mvme68k 5.5 installation instructions
1.42 miod 135: </a>.
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1.46 miod 138: <a name="details"></a>
1.42 miod 139: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
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1.42 miod 141: <p>
142: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place,
143: this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k
144: hardware.
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1.42 miod 146: <p>
1.51 miod 147: This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
148: controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.<br>
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