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1.26 bentley 14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
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1.26 bentley 21: OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
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1.20 deraadt 24: <strong>The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.</strong>
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1.26 bentley 29: <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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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.
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39: Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
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42: The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work
1.27 fcambus 43: was terminated at the end of February 2004 due to lack of payment on the part
1.14 drahn 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.
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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.
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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
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1.14 drahn 60: In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were
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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.
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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.
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79: Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the
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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.
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1.15 xsa 88: The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console,
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1.14 drahn 90: present or missing, with firmware settings.
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1.26 bentley 93: <h3 id="problems">Known Problems</h3>
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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
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