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                     16: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon</font></h2>
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                     22: OpenBSD/octeon is a port intended to run on systems based upon the
                     23: Cavium Octeon and Octeon PLUS MIPS64 CPUs.
                     24:
1.19      bentley    25: <h3 id="toc"><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    26: <ul>
                     27:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     28:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
                     29:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     30:   <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/octeon</a>
                     31: </ul>
                     32:
                     33: <hr>
1.19      bentley    34:
                     35: <h3 id="history"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    36: <p>
                     37: OpenBSD/octeon began in 2010 with an SDK created by
                     38: <a href="http://www.iij.ad.jp/en/index.html">IIJ</a> and donated to OpenBSD.
                     39: Early work targeted the Portwell CAM-0100.
                     40: <p>
                     41: Due to the lack of available hardware, the port lay dormant for a few years.
                     42: This changed in January 2013 with the release of the Ubiquiti Networks
                     43: EdgeRouter LITE. Several developers obtained these new machines, and work
1.8       bcallah    44: began immediately. Due to issues with USB support, the port to the Portwell
                     45: CAM-0100 matured first because it allowed CF cards to be used as a storage
                     46: medium.
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1.8       bcallah    48: Development has been rapid, with the port to the Portwell CAM-0100 becoming
1.12      pirofti    49: self-hosting in April 2013.
                     50: In August 2013 the DSR-500 model reached userland and could host OpenBSD
                     51: via NFS.
                     52: Support for EdgeRouter LITE Ethernet was added in
1.10      bcallah    53: September 2013, allowing the EdgeRouter LITE to be usable by NFS booting.
1.1       bcallah    54: <p>
1.24      jasper     55: In June 2015 USB support was added which finally allowed installing to
                     56: local disk on machines lacking a CF slot.
1.1       bcallah    57:
                     58: <hr>
1.19      bentley    59:
                     60: <h3 id="hardware"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    61: <p>
1.10      bcallah    62: OpenBSD/octeon supports the following machines:
1.1       bcallah    63: <ul>
                     64: <li><a href="http://www.portwell.com/products/detail.asp?CUSTCHAR1=CAM-0100">
                     65: Portwell CAM-0100</a>
1.23      nick       66: <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140803060102/http://www.dlink.com/us/en/business-solutions/security/services-routers/dsr-500-the-d-link-services-router">
1.12      pirofti    67:        D-Link DSR-500</a>
1.17      jasper     68: <li><a href="http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/">Ubiquiti Networks
1.1       bcallah    69: EdgeRouter LITE</a>
1.17      jasper     70: <li><a href="http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-poe/">Ubiquiti Networks
1.16      reyk       71: EdgeRouter PoE</a>
1.1       bcallah    72: </ul>
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1.19      bentley    75:
                     76: <h3 id="status"><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       bcallah    77:
                     78: <p>
1.24      jasper     79: OpenBSD/octeon can be installed on all machines which have local
                     80: Compact Flash or USB storage.
1.1       bcallah    81:
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1.19      bentley    83:
                     84: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">
1.6       jasper     85: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/octeon:</strong>
1.1       bcallah    86: </font></h3>
                     87:
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                     89:
                     90: The latest supported OpenBSD/octeon release is
1.25    ! sthen      91: <a href="58.html">OpenBSD 5.8</a>.
1.1       bcallah    92: Here are the
1.25    ! sthen      93: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
        !            94: OpenBSD/octeon 5.8 installation instructions
1.1       bcallah    95: </a>.
1.11      sthen      96:
1.1       bcallah    97: <p>
                     98: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.9       sthen      99: <a href="http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/octeon">this location</a>
1.1       bcallah   100: as well as in a few
                    101: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
                    102: Here are the
1.9       sthen     103: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
1.1       bcallah   104: OpenBSD/octeon snapshot installation instructions
                    105: </a> as well.
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