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<h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k</font></h2>
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<p>
OpenBSD/mvme88k is a port of OpenBSD to the systems built upon
Motorola's 88xxx-based VME motherboard family.
<p>
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<p>
The current port maintainer is Miod Vallat
(<a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>), with the help of
Steve Murphree. Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
<a name="toc"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
<li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
<li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
<li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
<li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme88k</a>
<li><a href="#details">Hardware details</a>
</ul>
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<a name="history"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
<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
release.
<p>
The lack of an in-tree toolchain did not prevent further work on the port,
and a lot of changes were made to the codebase, such as revamped autoconf
and on-board SCSI driver, greatly expanded VME bus support, a working
install process that correctly creates a Motorola VID block on the disks,
and support for MVME188 as well as improving support for MVME197.
<p>
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.
<p>
Work towards multiprocessor support on the MVME188 boards started in
summer 2005 and, after a lot of tedious bugfixing, was eventually
completed shortly after the 4.2 release in november 2007.
<p>
The next step was getting the 88110-based MVME197 designs to work.
Single-processor kernels started to run reliably in december 2007;
multiprocessor support was completed in march 2009, but kept triggering
obscure bugs which eventually got tracked down to a processor errata,
fixed for good in april 2010.
<hr>
<a name="status"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
<p>
Currently, MVME187, MVME188 and MVME197 boards, as well as similar
designs, are booting multi-user, supporting most of the on-board devices.
There are still a few caveats; depending on your exact hardware setup,
your mileage may vary.
Work is in progress to fix the remaining problems.
<hr>
<a name="projects"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
</strong></font></h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Work on unsupported device cards (MVME330, MVME374...).
<li>Write code for new binutils (and gdb), switch to ELF and, later,
shared libraries.
</ul>
<hr>
<a name="hardware"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
<p>
<h4>Supported processor boards</h4>
<p>
<ul>
<li><strong>MVME187</strong><br>
A single 88100 processor-based version of the <a href="mvme68k.html">mvme68k</a>
MVME167 and MVME177 boards. Features two 88200 CMMUs with 16KB cache
each, SRAM, and on-board ethernet and SCSI controllers, as well as four serial
ports and one parallel port.<br>
<li><strong>MVME188 and MVME188A</strong><br>
Contrary to the other MVME processor boards, this board has no on-board
devices; it just acts as a container for an <i>HYPERmodule</i> which provides
one, two or four 88100 processors, and two or four 88200 (16KB cache) or 88204
(64KB cache) CMMUs per processor.<br>
All HYPERmodules combinations are supported, but M88200 1P128 and 1P512 have
not been tested.<br>
External cards specific to the MVME188 family provide memory and serial ports.
<br>
Multi-processor kernels are supported on these boards.
<li><strong>MVME197LE</strong><br>
An entry-level design similar to the MVME187, but based on the 88110 processor
with integrated MMU and cache controller.<br>
<li><strong>MVME197SP and MVME197DP</strong><br>
Improved versions of the MVME197LE, with one (SP) or two (DP) 88110 processors,
and one 88410 external cache controller per processor.<br>
Multi-processor kernels are supported on these boards.
</ul>
<p>
Besides various Motorola complete systems (<strong>M8120</strong>,
<strong>Series 900</strong>, etc), this port also runs on the
MVME187-based <strong>Triton Dolphin System 100</strong>.
<p>
<h4>Supported on-board devices</h4>
<p>
<ul>
<li><strong>MVME187 and MVME197</strong>
<ul>
<li>Cirrus Logic CL2400 serial ports (tty00-tty03/tty07<i>[M8120]</i>) (cl)
<li>Intel 82596CA Ethernet interface
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ie&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">ie</a>)
<li>NCR53c710 SCSI Controller
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=osiop&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">osiop</a>)
<li>128KB SRAM (/dev/sram0)
<li>8KB NVRAM (/dev/nvram0)
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>MVME188</strong>
<ul>
<li>serial ports on <i>SYSCON</i> board (ttya-ttyb) (dart)
<li>2KB NVRAM (/dev/nvram0)
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<h4>Supported VME boards</h4>
<p>
<ul>
<li><strong>MVME327A</strong> SCSI and floppy Controller
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vsbic&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">vsbic</a>),
currently limited to the SCSI interface
<li><strong>MVME328</strong> High Performance SCSI Controller
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vs&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">vs</a>)
<li><strong>MVME332XT</strong> High Performance Serial I/O Controller
(8 serial ports, 1 parallel port) (vx)
<li><strong>MVME376</strong> Ethernet Communications Controller
(<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=mvme88k">le</a>)
</ul>
<p>
<h4>Unsupported processor boards</h4>
<p>
<p>
These boards are currently not supported. There is nothing, apart from lack
of available hardware, preventing them from being supported eventually.
<ul>
<li><strong>MVME180 <i>``Angelfire''</i> and MVME181</strong><br>
A low-cost, entry level board, featuring a single 88100 processor, two 88200
CMMUs and two on-board serial ports.
</ul>
<hr>
<a name="install"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0">
<strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/mvme88k:</strong>
</font></h3>
<p>
The latest supported OpenBSD/mvme88k release is
<a href="48.html">OpenBSD 4.8</a>.
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
OpenBSD/mvme88k 4.8 installation instructions
</a>.
<p>
Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
<a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme88k">this location</a>
as well as in a few
<a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
OpenBSD/mvme88k snapshot installation instructions
</a> as well.
<hr>
<a name="details"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware details:</strong></font></h3>
<p>
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.
<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>
Pictures of a Motorola 900 modular chassis, with a 33MHz MVME187 CPU board,
32MB RAM, 4 MVME332XT serial boards, and an Archive 250MB QIC tape drive.
<ul>
<li><a href="images/mvme187-1.jpg">MVME187 Series 900 (front view)</a>
<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>
</ul>
<p>
This is a boot log of an MVME197DP system.
<pre>
[ using 205464 bytes of bsd a.out symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2010 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC.MP) #308: Thu Apr 15 21:09:19 GMT 2010
miod@arzon.gentiane.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme88k/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 134217728 (128MB)
avail mem = 125927424 (120MB)
mainbus0 at root: Motorola MVME197, 50MHz
cpu0: M88110 version 0xf, 8K I/D caches
cpu0: external M88410 cache controller
cpu1: M88110 version 0xf, 8K I/D caches
cpu1: external M88410 cache controller
bussw0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfff00000: rev 4
pcctwo0 at bussw0 offset 0x0: rev 0
nvram0 at pcctwo0 offset 0xc0000: MK48T08
cl0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x45000 ipl 3: console
osiop0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x47000 ipl 2: NCR53C710 rev 2, 50MHz
scsibus0 at osiop0: 8 targets, initiator 7
osiop0: target 0 now using 8 bit 10 MHz 8 REQ/ACK offset xfers
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SAMSUNG, WN34324U (gm030), 0105> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 4120MB, 512 bytes/sec, 8438976 sec total
osiop0: target 1 now using 8 bit 10 MHz 8 REQ/ACK offset xfers
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL_TM3200S, 300X> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 3067MB, 512 bytes/sec, 6281856 sec total
vme0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x40000
vme0: using BUG parameters
vme0: 1phys 0x08000000-0xefff0000 to VME 0x08000000-0xefff0000
vme0: vme to cpu irq level 1:1
vmes0 at vme0
vmel0 at vme0
ie0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x46000 ipl 3: address 08:00:3e:23:ed:e8
vscsi0 at root
scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
/dev/rsd0a: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd0f: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd1a: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd0d: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd0h: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd0e: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd0g: file system is clean; not checking
setting tty flags
ddb.console: 0 -> 1
kern.splassert: 1 -> 2
starting network
starting system logger
starting initial daemons: portmap ypbind rdate ntpd.
savecore: no core dump
checking quotas: done.
building ps databases: kvm dev.
clearing /tmp
starting pre-securelevel daemons:.
setting kernel security level: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
creating runtime link editor directory cache.
preserving editor files.
starting network daemons: sendmail inetd sshd.
starting local daemons:.
standard daemons: cron.
Thu Apr 15 21:12:51 GMT 2010
OpenBSD/mvme88k (arzon.gentiane.org) (console)
login:
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