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! 18: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
! 19: <font color="#e00000">pegasos</font>
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1.23 deraadt 24: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
1.1 drahn 25: <p>
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1.20 deraadt 27: <strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
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1.1 drahn 32: <a name="history"></a>
33: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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35: <p>
1.8 drahn 36: The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
37: <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
1.14 drahn 38: Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
1.15 xsa 39: After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
1.14 drahn 40: Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
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1.9 miod 42: <p>
43: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
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1.14 drahn 45: <p>
46: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
47: was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
48: of Genesi.
49: They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
50: behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
51: At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
52: payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
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1.14 drahn 55: A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
56: with a new version of firmware.
57: After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
58: This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
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1.14 drahn 61: bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
62: While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
63: issue.
64: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
65: ignored.
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1.14 drahn 68: At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
1.15 xsa 69: it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
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71: <p>
1.14 drahn 72: Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
73: fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
74: it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
75: The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
76: release and would disrupt that process.
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80: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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83: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17 landry 84: OpenBSD source tree.
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87: Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
88: However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
89: documentation was never made available.
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1.15 xsa 92: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
93: or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
1.14 drahn 94: present or missing, with firmware settings.
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97: <a name="problems"></a>
98: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Known Problems</font></h3>
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1.15 xsa 101: <li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
1.14 drahn 102: appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
103: further development.
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