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  <p>
  The Motorola 88k processor is said to be the best RISC processor ever 
  devised.  Its simplicity and elegance combine to make the mvme88k a 
! hearty, robust platform. 
  
  <p>
! Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, but
! has since moved on to another employer.  
! The port was brought in the OpenBSD tree by Dale Rahn, but he did not
! have enough time to work on it.
! Steve Murphree, Jr. eventually completed the port to the MVME187 in
! November 1998.
  
  <p>
  Unfortunately, at the same time, a compiler upgrade from gcc 2.8.1 to
  egcs exposed a lot of problems in the mvme88k support in gcc, which
  could not be fixed in time for mvme88k to be a supported OpenBSD 2.5
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  <p>
  The Motorola 88k processor is said to be the best RISC processor ever 
  devised.  Its simplicity and elegance combine to make the mvme88k a 
! hearty, robust platform.
  
  <p>
! Unfortunately, the first generation designs (88100) made use of companion chips
! for cache and virtual memory management, making hardware designs painfully
! complex (and expensive, at that time).  The second generation (88110) addressed
! this issue, but was plagued with reliability issue.  Eventually, Motorola
! seized the opportunity to drop the 88000 line in favour of the PowerPC as soon
! as possible, although some parts of the 88110 still exist in the PowerPC family
! processors today.
  
  <p>
+ Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, building
+ upon the CMU Mach code running on the 88100-based Omron Luna88k systems.
+ However, he moved on to another employer before his work was ready to be
+ imported into the OpenBSD source tree.
+ 
+ <p>
+ This integration work was completed by Dale Rahn, but he did not have enough
+ time to continue working on the port.  Steve Murphree, Jr., stepped up, and
+ eventually completed the port to the MVME187 in November 1998.
+ 
+ <p>
  Unfortunately, at the same time, a compiler upgrade from gcc 2.8.1 to
  egcs exposed a lot of problems in the mvme88k support in gcc, which
  could not be fixed in time for mvme88k to be a supported OpenBSD 2.5
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  obscure bugs which eventually got tracked down to a processor errata,
  fixed for good in april 2010.
  
+ <p>
+ The long-awaited switch from the a.out binary format to ELF happened after the
+ 5.2 release, with a compiler upgrade to gcc 3.3.6.  This work paved the way
+ for ELF shared libraries support, which are currently being worked on, with the
+ hope to be ready and reliable in time for the forthcoming 5.3 release.
+ 
  <hr>
  <a name="status"></a>
  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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  881x0-based hardware is even more rare, this section is here to satisfy the
  well-founded curiosity about the mvme88k hardware.
  
+ <!-- 
  <p>
  A comprehensive reference about the m88k processor and the various designs
  built upon it is being gathered by Paul Weissmann at
  <a href="http://badabada.org/">badabada</a>.
+ -->
  
  <a name="pics"></a>
  <p>
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