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                     18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon</font></h2>
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                     24: OpenBSD/octeon is a port intended to run on systems based upon the
                     25: Cavium Octeon and Octeon PLUS MIPS64 CPUs.
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1.19      bentley    27: <h3 id="toc"><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    28: <ul>
                     29:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     30:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
                     31:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     32:   <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/octeon</a>
                     33: </ul>
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                     35: <hr>
1.19      bentley    36:
                     37: <h3 id="history"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    38: <p>
                     39: OpenBSD/octeon began in 2010 with an SDK created by
                     40: <a href="http://www.iij.ad.jp/en/index.html">IIJ</a> and donated to OpenBSD.
                     41: Early work targeted the Portwell CAM-0100.
                     42: <p>
                     43: Due to the lack of available hardware, the port lay dormant for a few years.
                     44: This changed in January 2013 with the release of the Ubiquiti Networks
                     45: EdgeRouter LITE. Several developers obtained these new machines, and work
1.8       bcallah    46: began immediately. Due to issues with USB support, the port to the Portwell
                     47: CAM-0100 matured first because it allowed CF cards to be used as a storage
                     48: medium.
1.1       bcallah    49: <p>
1.8       bcallah    50: Development has been rapid, with the port to the Portwell CAM-0100 becoming
1.12      pirofti    51: self-hosting in April 2013.
                     52: In August 2013 the DSR-500 model reached userland and could host OpenBSD
                     53: via NFS.
                     54: Support for EdgeRouter LITE Ethernet was added in
1.10      bcallah    55: September 2013, allowing the EdgeRouter LITE to be usable by NFS booting.
1.1       bcallah    56: <p>
                     57: And work continues...
                     58:
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1.19      bentley    60:
                     61: <h3 id="hardware"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    62: <p>
1.10      bcallah    63: OpenBSD/octeon supports the following machines:
1.1       bcallah    64: <ul>
                     65: <li><a href="http://www.portwell.com/products/detail.asp?CUSTCHAR1=CAM-0100">
                     66: Portwell CAM-0100</a>
1.12      pirofti    67: <li><a href="http://www.dlink.com/us/en/business-solutions/security/services-routers/dsr-500-the-d-link-services-router">
                     68:        D-Link DSR-500</a>
1.17      jasper     69: <li><a href="http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/">Ubiquiti Networks
1.1       bcallah    70: EdgeRouter LITE</a>
1.17      jasper     71: <li><a href="http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-poe/">Ubiquiti Networks
1.16      reyk       72: EdgeRouter PoE</a>
1.1       bcallah    73: </ul>
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1.19      bentley    76:
                     77: <h3 id="status"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    78:
                     79: <p>
1.8       bcallah    80: Currently it is possible to install OpenBSD/octeon on the Portwell
1.12      pirofti    81: CAM-0100 machines, as they have a working storage driver.
                     82: The DSR-500 and EdgeRouter LITE may also be used by booting over NFS.
1.1       bcallah    83:
                     84: <hr>
1.19      bentley    85:
                     86: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">
1.6       jasper     87: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/octeon:</strong>
1.1       bcallah    88: </font></h3>
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                     91:
                     92: The latest supported OpenBSD/octeon release is
1.20    ! nick       93: <a href="57.html">OpenBSD 5.7</a>.
1.1       bcallah    94: Here are the
1.20    ! nick       95: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
        !            96: OpenBSD/octeon 5.7 installation instructions
1.1       bcallah    97: </a>.
1.11      sthen      98:
1.1       bcallah    99: <p>
                    100: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.9       sthen     101: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/octeon">this location</a>
1.1       bcallah   102: as well as in a few
                    103: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
                    104: Here are the
1.9       sthen     105: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
1.1       bcallah   106: OpenBSD/octeon snapshot installation instructions
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