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18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k</font></h2>
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1.3 fn 21:
1.29 miod 22: <p>
1.45 miod 23: OpenBSD/mvme88k is an effort to port OpenBSD to the systems built upon
24: Motorola's 881x0-based VME motherboard family.
1.29 miod 25: </p>
1.1 deraadt 26:
1.29 miod 27: <p>
1.37 miod 28: The current port maintainer is Miodrag Vallat
29: (<a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>), with the help of
30: Steve Murphree. Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
1.29 miod 31: </p>
1.3 fn 32:
1.29 miod 33: <a href="#toc"></a>
34: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3 fn 35: <p>
1.13 smurph 36: <ul>
1.31 jufi 37: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.29 miod 38: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
39: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
1.56 nick 40: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.29 miod 41: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>
42: <li><a href="#details">Hardware details</a>
1.13 smurph 43: </ul>
44:
45: <hr>
1.29 miod 46: <a name="history"></a>
47: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.13 smurph 48:
49: <p>
1.16 smurph 50: The Motorola 88k processor is said to be the best RISC processor ever
1.17 deraadt 51: devised. Its simplicity and elegance combine to make the mvme88k a
1.16 smurph 52: hearty, robust platform.
53: </p>
1.29 miod 54:
1.13 smurph 55: <p>
1.29 miod 56: Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, but
57: has since moved on to another employer.
58: The port was brought in the OpenBSD tree by Dale Rahn, but he did not
59: have enough time to work on it.
60: Steve Murphree, Jr. eventually completed the port to the MVME187 in
61: November 1998.
1.13 smurph 62: </p>
63:
64: <p>
1.29 miod 65: Unfortunately, at the same time, a compiler upgrade from gcc 2.8.1 to
66: egcs revealed a lot of problems in the mvme88k support in gcc, which
67: could not be fixed in time for mvme88k to be a supported OpenBSD 2.5
68: release.
1.13 smurph 69: </p>
70:
71: <p>
1.29 miod 72: The lack of an in-tree toolchain did not prevent further work on the port,
73: and a lot of changes were made to the codebase, such as revamped autoconf
74: and on-board SCSI driver, greatly expanded VME bus support, working install
75: process that correctly creates a Motorola VID block on the disks,
76: and support for MVME188 as well as improving support for MVME197.
1.13 smurph 77: </p>
78:
1.34 miod 79: <p>
80: During summer 2003, an effort to fix the toolchain eventually produced a
81: working gcc 2.95 compiler, and allowed the port to be self-hosting again.
1.54 miod 82: With the help of Mark Kettenis, the toolchain effort eventually produced
83: working binutils and gdb in late may 2004.
1.34 miod 84: </p>
85:
1.29 miod 86: <hr>
87: <a name="status"></a>
88: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
89:
1.13 smurph 90: <p>
1.55 miod 91: Currently, only the MVME187 and MVME188 boards, as well as similar
1.46 miod 92: designs, are booting multi-user, supporting most of the on-board devices.
1.39 david 93: There are still a few caveats; depending on your exact hardware setup,
94: your mileage may vary.
1.37 miod 95: Work is on progress to fix the remaining problems and reliably support more
96: boards.
1.13 smurph 97: </p>
98:
1.29 miod 99: <hr>
100: <a name="projects"></a>
101: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
102: </strong></font></h3>
1.19 smurph 103:
104: <p>
105: <ul>
1.38 miod 106: <li>MVME197 support.
1.37 miod 107: <li>Work on unsupported device cards (MVME327, MVME374...).
108: <li>Write code for new binutils (and gdb), switch to ELF and, later,
1.32 miod 109: shared libraries.
1.19 smurph 110: </ul>
111:
1.13 smurph 112: <hr>
1.29 miod 113: <a name="hardware"></a>
114: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
1.13 smurph 115:
116: <p>
1.29 miod 117: <h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
1.13 smurph 118:
119: <p>
120: <ul>
1.35 miod 121: <li><strong>MVME187</strong><br>
122: A single 88100 processor-based version of the <a href="mvme68k.html">mvme68k</a>
1.36 miod 123: MVME167 and MVME177 boards. Features two 88200 CMMUs with 16KB cache
1.35 miod 124: each, SRAM, and on-board ethernet and SCSI controllers, as well as four serial
125: ports and one parallel port.<br>
1.55 miod 126: <li><strong>MVME188 and MVME188A</strong><br>
1.38 miod 127: Contrary to the other MVME processor boards, this board has no on-board
128: devices; it just acts as a container for an <i>HYPERmodule</i> which provides
129: one, two or four 88110 processors, and two or four 88200 (16KB cache) or 88204
130: (64KB cache) CMMUs per processor.<br>
1.55 miod 131: All HYPERmodules combinations are supported, but M88200 1P128 and 1P512 have
132: not been tested.<br>
1.38 miod 133: External cards specific to the MVME188 family provide memory and serial ports.
1.13 smurph 134: </ul>
135:
1.29 miod 136: <p>
1.45 miod 137: Besides various Motorola complete systems (<strong>M8120</strong>,
138: MVME187-based <strong>series 900</strong>, etc), this port also runs on the
139: MVME187-based <strong>Triton Dolphin System 100</strong>.
140: </p>
141:
142: <p>
1.29 miod 143: <h4>Supported on-board devices</h4>
1.13 smurph 144:
1.29 miod 145: <p>
1.13 smurph 146: <ul>
1.45 miod 147: <li><strong>MVME187</strong>
1.13 smurph 148: <ul>
1.49 miod 149: <li>Cirrus Logic CL2400 serial ports (tty00-tty03/tty07<i>[M8120]</i>) (cl)
1.45 miod 150: <li>Intel 82596CA Ethernet interface
1.43 miod 151: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ie&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">ie</a>)
1.45 miod 152: <li>NCR53c710 SCSI Controller
1.53 miod 153: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=osiop&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">osiop</a>)
1.45 miod 154: <li>128KB SRAM (/dev/sram0)
155: <li>8KB NVRAM (/dev/nvram0)
1.13 smurph 156: </ul>
1.45 miod 157: </li>
158: <li><strong>MVME188</strong>
1.13 smurph 159: <ul>
1.45 miod 160: <li>serial ports on <i>SYSCON</i> board (ttya-ttyb) (dart)
161: <li>2KB NVRAM (/dev/nvram0)
1.13 smurph 162: </ul>
1.45 miod 163: </li>
1.29 miod 164: </ul>
1.13 smurph 165:
1.29 miod 166: <p>
1.45 miod 167: <h4>Supported VME boards</h4>
1.13 smurph 168:
1.29 miod 169: <p>
1.13 smurph 170: <ul>
1.45 miod 171: <li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
1.43 miod 172: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vs&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">vs</a>)
1.45 miod 173: <li><strong>MVME332XT</strong> High Performance Serial I/O Controller
1.42 miod 174: (8 serial ports, 1 parallel port) (vx)
1.45 miod 175: <li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
1.44 miod 176: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">le</a>)
1.13 smurph 177: </ul>
178:
1.33 miod 179: <p>
180: <h4>Unsupported processor boards</h4>
181: <p>
182:
183: <p>
1.37 miod 184: These boards are currently not supported. However, code for some of them exists
185: in the tree, and is currently being debugged.
1.33 miod 186: <ul>
1.48 miod 187: <li><strong>MVME180 <i>``Angelfire''</i> and MVME181</strong><br>
188: A low-cost, entry level board, featuring a single 88100 processor, two 88200
189: CMMUs and two on-board serial ports.
1.35 miod 190: <li><strong>MVME197LE</strong><br>
191: An entry-level design similar to the MVME187, but based on the 88110 processor
1.37 miod 192: with integrated MMU and cache controller.
1.46 miod 193: <li><strong>MVME197SP and MVME197DP</strong><br>
194: Improved versions of the MVME197LE, with one or two 88110 processors, and
195: one 88410 external cache controller per processor.
1.33 miod 196: </ul>
197:
1.13 smurph 198: <hr>
1.29 miod 199: <a name="install"></a>
200: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
201: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme88k:</strong>
202: </font></h3>
203:
204: <p>
1.52 david 205: The latest supported OpenBSD/mvme88k release is
1.58 ! miod 206: <a href="36.html">OpenBSD 3.6</a>.
1.52 david 207: Here are the
1.58 ! miod 208: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.6/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
! 209: OpenBSD/mvme88k 3.6 installation instructions
1.52 david 210: </a>.
211: </p>
212:
213: <p>
1.38 miod 214: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.52 david 215: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme88k">this location</a>
1.33 miod 216: as well as in a few
217: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
218: Here are the
1.52 david 219: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
1.33 miod 220: OpenBSD/mvme88k snapshot installation instructions
221: </a> as well.
1.29 miod 222: </p>
1.1 deraadt 223:
1.3 fn 224: <hr>
1.30 miod 225: <a name="details"></a>
1.29 miod 226: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
1.13 smurph 227:
1.14 smurph 228: <p>
1.29 miod 229: As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place, and Motorola
230: 881x0-based hardware is even more rare, this section is here to satisfy the
231: well-founded curiosity about the mvme88k hardware.
1.14 smurph 232: </p>
1.29 miod 233:
1.48 miod 234: <p>
235: A comprehensive reference about the m88k processor and the various designs
236: built upon it is being gathered by Paul Weissmann at
1.57 miod 237: <a href="http://badabada.org/">badabada</a>.
1.48 miod 238: </p>
239:
1.52 david 240: <a name="pics"></a>
1.29 miod 241: <p>
242: Pictures of a Motorola 900 modular chassis, with a 33MHz MVME187 CPU board,
243: 32MB RAM, 4 MVME332XT serial boards, and an Archive 250MB QIC tape drive.
1.14 smurph 244: <ul>
1.29 miod 245: <li><a href="images/mvme187-1.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (front view)</a>
1.14 smurph 246: <li><a href="images/mvme187-2.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view)</a>
247: <li><a href="images/mvme187-3.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view w/terminal)</a>
248: <li><a href="images/mvme187-4.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view close up)</a>
249: <li><a href="images/mvme188-2.jpg">MVME188 Dual proc board</a>
250: </ul>
1.15 smurph 251:
1.19 smurph 252: <p>
1.33 miod 253: This is a boot log of an MVME187 system.
1.19 smurph 254: <pre>
1.33 miod 255: CPU0 is attached with 2 MC88200 CMMUs
1.21 miod 256: CPU0 is master CPU
1.43 miod 257: [ using 164336 bytes of bsd a.out symbol table ]
1.21 miod 258: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
1.33 miod 259: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
260: Copyright (c) 1995-2003 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org
1.21 miod 261:
1.43 miod 262: OpenBSD 3.4-current (GENERIC) #339: Thu Dec 25 20:53:33 GMT 2003
263: miod@ramade.gentiane.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme88k/compile/GENERIC
264: real mem = 33554432
265: avail mem = 28024832 (6842 pages)
266: using 435 buffers containing 1781760 bytes of memory
267: mainbus0 (root): Motorola MVME187, 25MHz
1.38 miod 268: cpu0: M88100 rev 0x3, 2 CMMU
269: cpu0: M88200 (16K) rev 0x9, global Icache, M88200 (16K) rev 0x9, global Dcache
270: bugtty0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfff45000: fallback console
1.33 miod 271: pcctwo0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfff00000: rev 0
1.38 miod 272: clock0 at pcctwo0 ipl 5
1.43 miod 273: memc0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x43000: MEMC040 rev 1
1.33 miod 274: nvram0 at pcctwo0 offset 0xc0000: MK48T08 len 8192
1.43 miod 275: cl0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x45000 ipl 3 console
1.38 miod 276: ssh0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x47000 ipl 2: version 0 target 7
277: scsibus0 at ssh0: 8 targets
1.33 miod 278: vme0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x40000: vector base 0x80, system controller
279: vme0: using BUG parameters
1.43 miod 280: vme0: 1phys 0x02000000-0xefff0000 to VME 0x02000000-0xefff0000
1.33 miod 281: vme0: 2phys 0xff000000-0xff7f0000 to VME 0xff000000-0xff7f0000
282: vme0: 3phys 0x00000000-0x00000000 to VME 0x00000000-0x00000000
283: vme0: 4phys 0x00000000-0x00000000 to VME 0x00000000-0x00000000
284: vme0: vme to cpu irq level 1:1
1.21 miod 285: vmes0 at vme0
1.43 miod 286: vx0 at vmes0 addr 0xff780000 vaddr 0x3ad0000 vec 0x80 ipl 3
287: vx0: created channel 1
288: vs0 at vmes0 addr 0xffff9000 vaddr 0x3ae0000 vec 0x81 ipl 2: target 7
1.38 miod 289: scsibus1 at vs0: 8 targets
290: sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <COMPAQPC, DCAS-32160, S6CA> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
1.33 miod 291: sd0: 2006MB, 8188 cyl, 3 head, 167 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 4110000 sec total
1.21 miod 292: vmel0 at vme0
1.43 miod 293: ie0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x46000 ipl 1: address 08:00:3e:21:07:25
1.21 miod 294: boot device: sd0
295: root on sd0a
296: rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0x800 rawdev=0x802
1.33 miod 297: Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
298: /dev/rsd0a: file system is clean; not checking
299: /dev/rsd0d: file system is clean; not checking
300: /dev/rsd0e: file system is clean; not checking
301: /dev/rsd0f: file system is clean; not checking
302: /dev/rsd0g: file system is clean; not checking
303: /dev/rsd0h: file system is clean; not checking
304: /dev/rsd0i: file system is clean; not checking
305: setting tty flags
306: ddb.console: 0 -> 1
307: kern.splassert: 0 -> 2
308: starting network
309: add net default: gateway odyssee
310: starting system logger
311: starting rpc daemons: portmap ypbind rdate timed.
312: savecore: no core dump
313: checking quotas: done.
314: building ps databases: kvm dev.
315: clearing /tmp
316: starting pre-securelevel daemons:.
317: setting kernel security level: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
1.36 miod 318: preserving editor files
1.33 miod 319: creating runtime link editor directory cache.
1.36 miod 320: starting network daemons: sendmail inetd sshd.
1.33 miod 321: starting local daemons:.
322: standard daemons: cron.
1.48 miod 323: Sat Jan 3 22:58:54 GMT 2004
1.33 miod 324:
1.43 miod 325: OpenBSD/mvme88k (ramade.gentiane.org) (console)
1.33 miod 326:
327: login:
1.19 smurph 328: </pre>
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