[BACK]Return to mvme88k.html CVS log [TXT][DIR] Up to [local] / www
File: [local] / www / mvme88k.html (download) (as text)

Revision 1.14, Thu May 27 05:15:39 1999 UTC (25 years ago) by smurph
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.13: +41 -2 lines 

Updated mvme88k page.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>OpenBSD/mvme88k</title>
<link rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/mvme88k page">
<meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,mvme88k">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996, 1997 by OpenBSD.">
</head>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E">

<h2>OpenBSD/mvme88k</h2>
<img alt="[OpenBSD]" src="images/bsd_small.gif">

<hr>

<img align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 src="images/mvme187-1.jpg">
<h3><font color=#0000e0><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
<p>
<ul>
 <li><a href="#history">Past history of the port</a>
 <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
 <li><a href="#info">Where to get it</a>
 <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware list</a>
 <li><a href="#play">Where can you find hardware?</a>
 <li><a href="#pics">More 88k pictures</a>
 <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
</ul>
</p>

<hr>
<a name=history>
<h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>

<p>
Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, but has 
since moved on to another employer.  Steve Murphree, Jr. has since had major 
changes including revamped autoconf and on-board SCSI driver.  New, greatly 
expanded VME bus support.  A working install process that correctly creates 
a Motorola VID block on the disks

<p>
There is a snapshot avaliable as of 2.4.  The port supports the MVME187 
Single Board Computer (SBC).  MVME188 multi-processor board support is 
currently "in the works."  Support for the MVME197 is planned, but we 
need hardware to get things going.  (see the <a href="want.html">"Wanted List"</a>.)
</p>

<hr>
<a name=status>
<h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Current Status:</strong></font></h3>

<p>
The people working the most on OpenBSD/mvme88k are:
Steve Murphree, Jr.  
More would be nice :)
</p>

<p>
Email may be sent to the maintainer of the OpenBSD/mvme88k port at
<a href="mailto:smurph@openbsd.org">smurph@openbsd.org</a>.  
</p>

<p>
The installation tools and process as of the 2.5 release actually work.  
OpenBSD/mvme88k can be installed or upgraded via tape ramdisk images 
as well as network and diskless installs.
</p>

<hr>
<a name=info>
<h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Where to get it:</strong></font></h3>

<p>
<ul>
<li><a href=ftp.html>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>
<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>
</ul>
</p>

<p>
<hr>
<a name=hardware>
<h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported hardware list:</strong></font></h3>

<h4>OpenBSD/mvme88k runs on the following classes of machines:</h4>
<ul>
 <li> MVME187: Motorola 88100 based Single Board Computer (SBC)
</ul>

<h4>Supported devices</h4>

<ul>
<li> Floppy drives:
  <ul>
   <li> SCSI floppy disk drives
  </ul>

<li> Serial ports:
  <ul>
   <li> tty00, tty01, tty02 and tty03 on-board Cirrus Lodgic serial ports (MVME187)
   <li> MVME332 8-port serial card
  </ul>

<li> Ethernet adapters:
  <ul>
   <li> on-board Intel Ethernet (MVME187)
   <li> MVME376 AMD Lance Ethernet. 
  </ul>

<li> SCSI controllers:
  <ul>
   <li> on-board "NCR" SCSI controller (MVME187)
   <li> MVME328 SCSI controller
  </ul>
</ul>

<h4>OpenBSD/mvme88k does *not* run on these machines (yet):</h4>
<ul>
 <li> MVME188: Just a matter of time until I get a chassis for it
 <li> MVME197: I can't seem to get one donated...
</ul>

<h4>Unsupported Devices. There are many more...</h4>
<ul>
 <li>Disk Controllers:
  <ul>
   <li> MVME327 SCSI controller
  </ul>
 
 <li>Ethernet Controllers:
  <ul>
   <li> MVME374 LANCE controller
  </ul>

 <li>WAN Controllers:
  <ul>
   <li> MVME333 WAN controller
  </ul>
</ul>

<hr>
<a name=play>
<h3><font color=#0000e0>Where can you find hardware?</font></h3>
<ul>
 <li><a href="mailto:john@wad-s.com">John's Industrial Surplus.</a>.  
</ul>
<p>
If you really want to play 88k, this is what I suggest:
</p>
<ul>
 <li>MVME188 8000 series dual proc system.  It has a really cool chassis.
 <li>MVME187 SBC
 <li>NCD 88k X-Terminal.  It's a cool 88k X display.
</ul>
<p>
John has all of this stuff.  Give him a shout and see what he can get for you.
</p>
<hr>
<a name=projects>
<h3><font color=#0000e0>Project list:</font></h3>
<ul>
 <li>Start work on MVME197 port.
 <li>Finnish work on MVME188 port.
 <li>Start work on device drivers for unsupported VME cards.
</ul>

<hr>

<a name=pics>
<h3><font color=#0000e0>mvme88k pictures:</font></h3>
<p>
The picture at the top of this page is a MVME 900 Series Chassis with a MVME187 
33 Mhz, 32 Megabyte RAM SBC board, 4 MVME332XT serial baords and an 
ARCHIVE 250 MB QIC Tape unit.  It's hostname is m187.  It is the primary build 
machine for the OpenBSD/mvme88k port.
</p>
<ul>
 <li><a href="images/mvme187-2.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view)</a>
 <li><a href="images/mvme187-3.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view w/terminal)</a>
 <li><a href="images/mvme187-4.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (rear view close up)</a>
 <li><a href="images/mvme188-2.jpg">MVME188 Dual proc board</a>
 <li>More to come...
</ul>

<hr>

<a href=plat.html><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
<a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
<br>
<small>$OpenBSD: mvme88k.html,v 1.14 1999/05/27 05:15:39 smurph Exp $</small>

</body>
</html>