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17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/pegasos</font></h2>
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1.18 ! miod 22: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
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! 25: <strong><font color="#e00000">The OpenBSD/pegasos port has been
! 26: discontinued</font></strong> after the 3.5 release.
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1.14 drahn 30: There is no intention to revive this port.
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1.16 nick 32: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1 drahn 33: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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1.1 drahn 35: <ul>
36: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
37: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
38: <li><a href="#problems">Known problems</a>
39: </ul>
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41: <hr>
42: <a name="history"></a>
43: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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45: <p>
1.8 drahn 46: The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
47: <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
1.14 drahn 48: Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
1.15 xsa 49: After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
1.14 drahn 50: Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
1.1 drahn 51:
1.9 miod 52: <p>
53: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
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1.14 drahn 55: <p>
56: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
57: was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
58: of Genesi.
59: They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
60: behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
61: At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
62: payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
1.1 drahn 63:
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1.14 drahn 65: A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
66: with a new version of firmware.
67: After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
68: This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
69:
1.8 drahn 70: <p>
1.14 drahn 71: bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
72: While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
73: issue.
74: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
75: ignored.
1.1 drahn 76:
77: <p>
1.14 drahn 78: At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
1.15 xsa 79: it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
1.1 drahn 80:
81: <p>
1.14 drahn 82: Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
83: fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
84: it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
85: The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
86: release and would disrupt that process.
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1.14 drahn 89: <a name="status"></a>
90: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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1.14 drahn 92: <p>
93: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17 landry 94: OpenBSD source tree.
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1.14 drahn 96: <p>
97: Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
98: However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
99: documentation was never made available.
1.1 drahn 100:
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1.15 xsa 102: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
103: or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
1.14 drahn 104: present or missing, with firmware settings.
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106: <hr>
107: <a name="problems"></a>
108: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
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110: <ul>
1.15 xsa 111: <li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
1.14 drahn 112: appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
113: further development.
1.1 drahn 114: </ul>
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