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                     16: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/pegasos</font></h2>
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                     18: <hr>
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                     20: <p>
1.18      miod       21: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
                     22:
                     23: <p>
1.20    ! deraadt    24: <strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
1.18      miod       25: </p>
1.1       drahn      26:
                     27: <p>
1.14      drahn      28: There is no intention to revive this port.
1.1       drahn      29:
1.16      nick       30: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1       drahn      31: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.13      krw        32:
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>
                     37: </ul>
                     38:
                     39: <hr>
                     40: <a name="history"></a>
                     41: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     42:
                     43: <p>
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.
1.1       drahn      49:
1.9       miod       50: <p>
                     51: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
                     52:
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.
1.1       drahn      61:
                     62: <p>
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.
                     67:
1.8       drahn      68: <p>
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.
1.1       drahn      74:
                     75: <p>
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.
1.1       drahn      78:
                     79: <p>
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.
1.1       drahn      85:
                     86: <hr>
1.14      drahn      87: <a name="status"></a>
                     88: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       drahn      89:
1.14      drahn      90: <p>
                     91: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17      landry     92: OpenBSD source tree.
1.1       drahn      93:
1.14      drahn      94: <p>
                     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.
1.1       drahn      98:
                     99: <p>
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.
1.1       drahn     103:
                    104: <hr>
                    105: <a name="problems"></a>
                    106: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
                    107:
                    108: <ul>
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
                    111: further development.
1.1       drahn     112: </ul>
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