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14: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/pegasos</font></h2>
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1.23 ! deraadt 18: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
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1.20 deraadt 21: <strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
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1.1 drahn 26: <a name="history"></a>
27: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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29: <p>
1.8 drahn 30: The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
31: <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
1.14 drahn 32: Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
1.15 xsa 33: After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
1.14 drahn 34: Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
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1.9 miod 36: <p>
37: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
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1.14 drahn 39: <p>
40: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
41: was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
42: of Genesi.
43: They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
44: behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
45: At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
46: payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
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1.14 drahn 49: A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
50: with a new version of firmware.
51: After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
52: This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
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1.14 drahn 55: bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
56: While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
57: issue.
58: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
59: ignored.
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1.14 drahn 62: At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
1.15 xsa 63: it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
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1.14 drahn 66: Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
67: fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
68: it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
69: The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
70: release and would disrupt that process.
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74: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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77: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17 landry 78: OpenBSD source tree.
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1.14 drahn 80: <p>
81: Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
82: However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
83: documentation was never made available.
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1.15 xsa 86: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
87: or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
1.14 drahn 88: present or missing, with firmware settings.
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91: <a name="problems"></a>
92: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
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1.15 xsa 95: <li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
1.14 drahn 96: appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
97: further development.
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