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-OpenBSD/pegasos runs on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems. +OpenBSD/pegasos ran 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. +This port is no longer maintained. +There is no intention to revive this port. -

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

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. +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. -

- -

Current status:

+

+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.

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

-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. +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. -

- -

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

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

- -

Projects (in no particular order): -

+ +

Current status:

- +

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

- -

Supported peripherals: -

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Unsupported Hardware: -

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-Getting and installing OpenBSD/pegasos: -

-

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

- -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 
-
- On a Peg I, -
-  boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot 
-
-

- To boot an alternate kernel, -

-  boot hd:3 ofwboot /bsd.alt 
-
- 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. +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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-$OpenBSD: pegasos.html,v 1.13 2004/03/21 19:16:07 krw Exp $ +$OpenBSD: pegasos.html,v 1.14 2004/05/24 15:32:05 drahn Exp $