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