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1.1       drahn       5: <title>OpenBSD/pegasos</title>
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1.26    ! bentley    12: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
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1.26    ! bentley    14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
        !            15: pegasos
1.24      tb         16: </h2>
1.1       drahn      17: <hr>
1.26    ! bentley    18:
        !            19: <table><tr><td>
1.24      tb         20: <p>
1.26    ! bentley    21: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
1.1       drahn      22:
                     23: <p>
1.20      deraadt    24: <strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
1.26    ! bentley    25: </table>
1.1       drahn      26:
1.23      deraadt    27: <hr>
1.13      krw        28:
1.26    ! bentley    29: <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
1.1       drahn      30:
                     31: <p>
1.8       drahn      32: The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
                     33: <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
1.14      drahn      34: Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.
1.15      xsa        35: After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending,
1.14      drahn      36: Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
1.1       drahn      37:
1.9       miod       38: <p>
                     39: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
                     40:
1.14      drahn      41: <p>
                     42: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
                     43: was terminated at the end of Feburary 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
                     44: of Genesi.
                     45: They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months
                     46: behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'.
                     47: At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without
                     48: payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
1.1       drahn      49:
                     50: <p>
1.14      drahn      51: A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped,
                     52: with a new version of firmware.
                     53: After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired.
                     54: This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
                     55:
1.8       drahn      56: <p>
1.14      drahn      57: bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted.
                     58: While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting
                     59: issue.
                     60: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
                     61: ignored.
1.1       drahn      62:
                     63: <p>
1.14      drahn      64: At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information,
1.15      xsa        65: it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
1.1       drahn      66:
                     67: <p>
1.14      drahn      68: Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the
                     69: fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay,
                     70: it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped.
                     71: The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5
                     72: release and would disrupt that process.
1.1       drahn      73:
                     74: <hr>
1.26    ! bentley    75:
        !            76: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
1.1       drahn      77:
1.14      drahn      78: <p>
                     79: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
1.17      landry     80: OpenBSD source tree.
1.1       drahn      81:
1.14      drahn      82: <p>
                     83: Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported.
                     84: However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported,
                     85: documentation was never made available.
1.1       drahn      86:
                     87: <p>
1.15      xsa        88: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
                     89: or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is
1.14      drahn      90: present or missing, with firmware settings.
1.1       drahn      91:
                     92: <hr>
1.26    ! bentley    93: <h3 id="problems">Known Problems</h3>
1.1       drahn      94:
                     95: <ul>
1.15      xsa        96: <li>The parties involved with the building and sale of the Pegasos boards
1.14      drahn      97: appear to not be financially sound enough or trustworthy enough to merit
                     98: further development.
1.1       drahn      99: </ul>