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! OpenBSD/pegasos runs on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.

! A mailing list which is shared with the other PowerPC-based ports ! is available at ! ppc@openbsd.org. ! To join the OpenBSD/powerpc mailing list, send a message body of "subscribe ! ppc" to ! majordomo@openbsd.org. ! Please be sure to check our mailing list policy before ! subscribing. -

- The current port maintainer is Dale Rahn - (drahn@openbsd.org). - Others are definitely welcome to contribute! -

Table of contents

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! OpenBSD/pegasos ran on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.

! This port is no longer maintained. ! There is no intention to revive this port.

Table of contents

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The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when Genesi contacted ! Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released ! motherboard. ! After several months of hiatus, the port was revived and eventually ! made public.

Pegasos II support was added early 2004. !

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Current status:

! Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards are supported. ! However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface is not supported yet.

! The boards can be used with either vga (AGP or PCI) graphics console, ! or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a vga card is ! present or missing, with firmware settings. -

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X11:

! XFree86 has only been tested using the accelerated ATI driver, ! the classic vga driver and drivers for other firmware supported ! video have not been tested.

! Directions on enabling the accelerated X server can be found ! in the /usr/X11R6/README file on the installed system.

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Projects (in no particular order): !

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Unsupported Hardware: -

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- Getting and installing OpenBSD/pegasos: -

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! Snapshots are made available from time to time, in ! this location ! as well as in a few ! mirrors. ! Here are the ! ! OpenBSD/pegasos snapshot installation instructions ! as well.

! ! Currently, only one installation media is provided: !

! Currently MBR labeled disks are used by OpenBSD/pegasos for booting. ! RDB labeled disk is supported but not documented fully yet. !

! Typical booting from the installed harddrive depends on PegI/PegII, ! firmware differences ! On a pegII ! 

!   boot hd:3 ofwboot 
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! On a Peg I, ! 
!   boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot 
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! To boot an alternate kernel, ! 

!   boot hd:3 ofwboot /bsd.alt 
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! or on Peg I the kernelname must be specified twice due to how use_argv[0]? ! is handled ! 
!   boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot /bsd.alt /bsd.alt
!
! On the Peg I, the first /bsd.alt argument seems be dropped by the bootloader.

Known Problems

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The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when Genesi contacted ! Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard. ! After several months of hiatus, with the release of the PegasosII pending, ! Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.

Pegasos II support was added early 2004. !

! The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work ! was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part ! of Genesi. ! They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months ! behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'. ! At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without ! payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.

! A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped, ! with a new version of firmware. ! After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired. ! This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD. !

! bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted. ! While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting ! issue. ! In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were ! ignored.

! At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information, ! it was presumed that the new pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.

! Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the ! fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay, ! it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped. ! The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5 ! release and would disrupt that process.

! !

Current status:

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! Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the ! OpenBSD.

! Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported. ! However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported, ! documentation was never made available.

! The boards could be used with either vga (AGP or PCI) graphics console, ! or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a vga card is ! present or missing, with firmware settings.

Known Problems

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