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                     17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/pegasos</font></h2>
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                     21: <p>
1.14      drahn      22: OpenBSD/pegasos ran on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
1.1       drahn      23:
                     24: <p>
1.14      drahn      25: This port is no longer maintained.
                     26: There is no intention to revive this port.
1.1       drahn      27:
1.16      nick       28: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1       drahn      29: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.13      krw        30:
1.1       drahn      31: <ul>
                     32:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     33:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     34:   <li><a href="#problems">Known problems</a>
                     35: </ul>
                     36:
                     37: <hr>
                     38: <a name="history"></a>
                     39: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     40:
                     41: <p>
1.8       drahn      42: The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
                     43: <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
1.14      drahn      44: Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
1.15      xsa        45: After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
1.14      drahn      46: Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
1.1       drahn      47:
1.9       miod       48: <p>
                     49: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
                     50:
1.14      drahn      51: <p>
                     52: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
                     53: was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
                     54: of Genesi.
                     55: They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
                     56: behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
                     57: At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
                     58: payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
1.1       drahn      59:
                     60: <p>
1.14      drahn      61: A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
                     62: with a new version of firmware.
                     63: After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
                     64: This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
                     65:
1.8       drahn      66: <p>
1.14      drahn      67: bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
                     68: While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
                     69: issue.
                     70: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
                     71: ignored.
1.1       drahn      72:
                     73: <p>
1.14      drahn      74: At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
1.15      xsa        75: it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
1.1       drahn      76:
                     77: <p>
1.14      drahn      78: Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
                     79: fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
                     80: it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
                     81: The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
                     82: release and would disrupt that process.
1.1       drahn      83:
                     84: <hr>
1.14      drahn      85: <a name="status"></a>
                     86: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       drahn      87:
1.14      drahn      88: <p>
                     89: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17    ! landry     90: OpenBSD source tree.
1.1       drahn      91:
1.14      drahn      92: <p>
                     93: Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
                     94: However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
                     95: documentation was never made available.
1.1       drahn      96:
                     97: <p>
1.15      xsa        98: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
                     99: or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
1.14      drahn     100: present or missing, with firmware settings.
1.1       drahn     101:
                    102: <hr>
                    103: <a name="problems"></a>
                    104: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
                    105:
                    106: <ul>
1.15      xsa       107: <li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
1.14      drahn     108: appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
                    109: further development.
1.1       drahn     110: </ul>
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