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                     17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/pegasos</font></h2>
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                     19: <hr>
                     20:
                     21: <p>
1.18      miod       22: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
                     23:
                     24: <p>
1.20      deraadt    25: <strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
1.18      miod       26: </p>
1.1       drahn      27:
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1.14      drahn      29: There is no intention to revive this port.
1.1       drahn      30:
1.16      nick       31: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1       drahn      32: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.13      krw        33:
1.1       drahn      34: <ul>
                     35:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     36:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     37:   <li><a href="#problems">Known problems</a>
                     38: </ul>
                     39:
                     40: <hr>
                     41: <a name="history"></a>
                     42: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     43:
                     44: <p>
1.8       drahn      45: The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
                     46: <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
1.14      drahn      47: Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
1.15      xsa        48: After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
1.14      drahn      49: Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
1.1       drahn      50:
1.9       miod       51: <p>
                     52: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
                     53:
1.14      drahn      54: <p>
                     55: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
                     56: was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
                     57: of Genesi.
                     58: They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
                     59: behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
                     60: At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
                     61: payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
1.1       drahn      62:
                     63: <p>
1.14      drahn      64: A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
                     65: with a new version of firmware.
                     66: After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
                     67: This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
                     68:
1.8       drahn      69: <p>
1.14      drahn      70: bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
                     71: While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
                     72: issue.
                     73: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
                     74: ignored.
1.1       drahn      75:
                     76: <p>
1.14      drahn      77: At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
1.15      xsa        78: it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
1.1       drahn      79:
                     80: <p>
1.14      drahn      81: Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
                     82: fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
                     83: it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
                     84: The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
                     85: release and would disrupt that process.
1.1       drahn      86:
                     87: <hr>
1.14      drahn      88: <a name="status"></a>
                     89: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.1       drahn      90:
1.14      drahn      91: <p>
                     92: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17      landry     93: OpenBSD source tree.
1.1       drahn      94:
1.14      drahn      95: <p>
                     96: Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
                     97: However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
                     98: documentation was never made available.
1.1       drahn      99:
                    100: <p>
1.15      xsa       101: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
                    102: or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
1.14      drahn     103: present or missing, with firmware settings.
1.1       drahn     104:
                    105: <hr>
                    106: <a name="problems"></a>
                    107: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
                    108:
                    109: <ul>
1.15      xsa       110: <li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
1.14      drahn     111: appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
                    112: further development.
1.1       drahn     113: </ul>
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