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1.1 deraadt 15: <h2>OpenBSD/mvme88k</h2>
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21: <h3><font color=#0000e0><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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1.13 smurph 23: <ul>
24: <li><a href="#history">Past history of the port</a>
25: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
26: <li><a href="#info">Where to get it</a>
27: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware list</a>
1.14 ! smurph 28: <li><a href="#play">Where can you find hardware?</a>
! 29: <li><a href="#pics">More 88k pictures</a>
1.13 smurph 30: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
31: </ul>
32: </p>
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34: <hr>
35: <a name=history>
36: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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38: <p>
39: Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, but has
40: since moved on to another employer. Steve Murphree, Jr. has since had major
41: changes including revamped autoconf and on-board SCSI driver. New, greatly
42: expanded VME bus support. A working install process that correctly creates
43: a Motorola VID block on the disks
44:
45: <p>
46: There is a snapshot avaliable as of 2.4. The port supports the MVME187
47: Single Board Computer (SBC). MVME188 multi-processor board support is
48: currently "in the works." Support for the MVME197 is planned, but we
49: need hardware to get things going. (see the <a href="want.html">"Wanted List"</a>.)
50: </p>
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52: <hr>
53: <a name=status>
54: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Current Status:</strong></font></h3>
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56: <p>
1.14 ! smurph 57: The people working the most on OpenBSD/mvme88k are:
1.13 smurph 58: Steve Murphree, Jr.
59: More would be nice :)
60: </p>
61:
62: <p>
63: Email may be sent to the maintainer of the OpenBSD/mvme88k port at
64: <a href="mailto:smurph@openbsd.org">smurph@openbsd.org</a>.
65: </p>
66:
67: <p>
68: The installation tools and process as of the 2.5 release actually work.
69: OpenBSD/mvme88k can be installed or upgraded via tape ramdisk images
70: as well as network and diskless installs.
71: </p>
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73: <hr>
74: <a name=info>
75: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Where to get it:</strong></font></h3>
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77: <p>
78: <ul>
79: <li><a href=ftp.html>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>
80: <li><a href=ftp://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k>Installation information for the 2.5 release of OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>
81: </ul>
82: </p>
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84: <p>
85: <hr>
86: <a name=hardware>
87: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported hardware list:</strong></font></h3>
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89: <h4>OpenBSD/mvme88k runs on the following classes of machines:</h4>
90: <ul>
91: <li> MVME187: Motorola 88100 based Single Board Computer (SBC)
92: </ul>
93:
94: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
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96: <ul>
97: <li> Floppy drives:
98: <ul>
99: <li> SCSI floppy disk drives
100: </ul>
101:
102: <li> Serial ports:
103: <ul>
104: <li> tty00, tty01, tty02 and tty03 on-board Cirrus Lodgic serial ports (MVME187)
105: <li> MVME332 8-port serial card
106: </ul>
107:
108: <li> Ethernet adapters:
109: <ul>
110: <li> on-board Intel Ethernet (MVME187)
111: <li> MVME376 AMD Lance Ethernet.
112: </ul>
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114: <li> SCSI controllers:
115: <ul>
116: <li> on-board "NCR" SCSI controller (MVME187)
117: <li> MVME328 SCSI controller
118: </ul>
119: </ul>
120:
121: <h4>OpenBSD/mvme88k does *not* run on these machines (yet):</h4>
122: <ul>
123: <li> MVME188: Just a matter of time until I get a chassis for it
124: <li> MVME197: I can't seem to get one donated...
125: </ul>
126:
127: <h4>Unsupported Devices. There are many more...</h4>
128: <ul>
129: <li>Disk Controllers:
130: <ul>
131: <li> MVME327 SCSI controller
132: </ul>
1.12 smurph 133:
1.13 smurph 134: <li>Ethernet Controllers:
135: <ul>
136: <li> MVME374 LANCE controller
137: </ul>
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139: <li>WAN Controllers:
140: <ul>
141: <li> MVME333 WAN controller
142: </ul>
143: </ul>
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145: <hr>
1.14 ! smurph 146: <a name=play>
! 147: <h3><font color=#0000e0>Where can you find hardware?</font></h3>
! 148: <ul>
! 149: <li><a href="mailto:john@wad-s.com">John's Industrial Surplus.</a>.
! 150: </ul>
! 151: <p>
! 152: If you really want to play 88k, this is what I suggest:
! 153: </p>
! 154: <ul>
! 155: <li>MVME188 8000 series dual proc system. It has a really cool chassis.
! 156: <li>MVME187 SBC
! 157: <li>NCD 88k X-Terminal. It's a cool 88k X display.
! 158: </ul>
! 159: <p>
! 160: John has all of this stuff. Give him a shout and see what he can get for you.
! 161: </p>
! 162: <hr>
1.13 smurph 163: <a name=projects>
164: <h3><font color=#0000e0>Project list:</font></h3>
165: <ul>
1.14 ! smurph 166: <li>Start work on MVME197 port.
! 167: <li>Finnish work on MVME188 port.
1.13 smurph 168: <li>Start work on device drivers for unsupported VME cards.
169: </ul>
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! 174: <h3><font color=#0000e0>mvme88k pictures:</font></h3>
! 175: <p>
! 176: The picture at the top of this page is a MVME 900 Series Chassis with a MVME187
! 177: 33 Mhz, 32 Megabyte RAM SBC board, 4 MVME332XT serial baords and an
! 178: ARCHIVE 250 MB QIC Tape unit. It's hostname is m187. It is the primary build
! 179: machine for the OpenBSD/mvme88k port.
! 180: </p>
! 181: <ul>
! 182: <li><a href="images/mvme187-2.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view)</a>
! 183: <li><a href="images/mvme187-3.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view w/terminal)</a>
! 184: <li><a href="images/mvme187-4.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view close up)</a>
! 185: <li><a href="images/mvme188-2.jpg">MVME188 Dual proc board</a>
! 186: <li>More to come...
! 187: </ul>
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