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OpenBSD/mvme88k is an effort to port OpenBSD to the systems built upon Motorola's 881x0-based VME motherboard family. -

The current port maintainer is Miodrag Vallat (miod@openbsd.org), with the help of Steve Murphree. Others are definitely welcome to contribute! -

Table of contents

@@ -50,7 +48,6 @@ 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. -

Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, but @@ -59,14 +56,12 @@ have enough time to work on it. Steve Murphree, Jr. eventually completed the port to the MVME187 in November 1998. -

Unfortunately, at the same time, a compiler upgrade from gcc 2.8.1 to egcs revealed 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 release. -

The lack of an in-tree toolchain did not prevent further work on the port, @@ -74,14 +69,12 @@ and on-board SCSI driver, greatly expanded VME bus support, working install process that correctly creates a Motorola VID block on the disks, and support for MVME188 as well as improving support for MVME197. -

During summer 2003, an effort to fix the toolchain eventually produced a working gcc 2.95 compiler, and allowed the port to be self-hosting again. With the help of Mark Kettenis, the toolchain effort eventually produced working binutils and gdb in late may 2004. -


@@ -94,7 +87,6 @@ your mileage may vary. Work is on progress to fix the remaining problems and reliably support more boards. -


@@ -137,7 +129,6 @@ Besides various Motorola complete systems (M8120, MVME187-based series 900, etc), this port also runs on the MVME187-based Triton Dolphin System 100. -

Supported on-board devices

@@ -208,7 +199,6 @@ OpenBSD/mvme88k 3.6 installation instructions . -

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in @@ -219,7 +209,6 @@ OpenBSD/mvme88k snapshot installation instructions as well. -


@@ -229,13 +218,11 @@ As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place, and Motorola 881x0-based hardware is even more rare, this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme88k hardware. -

A comprehensive reference about the m88k processor and the various designs built upon it is being gathered by Paul Weissmann at badabada. -

@@ -334,7 +321,7 @@
www@openbsd.org
-$OpenBSD: mvme88k.html,v 1.58 2004/10/29 17:22:46 miod Exp $ +$OpenBSD: mvme88k.html,v 1.59 2004/11/03 12:36:13 saad Exp $