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+OpenBSD/pmax runs on a large set of the Digital MIPS-based DECstation and +DECserver family. These machines where the counterpart of the VAX-based VAXstations, +until the Alpha line was ready. +
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+The OpenBSD/pmax port has been +discontinued after the 2.7 release. +
-+There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life. +The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in +NetBSD as well. +If you are interested in reviving the pmax port, make it work and contact +Todd Miller and +Miodrag Vallat. +
- -Free pmax machines available for developers, just ask -Dieter Mayer+
+ -The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen (graichen@OpenBSD.org) shortly -before the OpenBSD 2.0 release. It is currently without a maintainer. -If you would like to maintain the port, hardware is available so please -send mail. -From the pmax specific code it is heavily based on NetBSD/pmax. -I want to take the chance -here to say thanks to Dieter Mayer and Rob Urban for supplying me (Thomas) with -the hardware to do the development on. Also i want to thank all the people -from the NetBSD/pmax team and mailing lists especially Jonathan Stone -and Michael Hitch for their help in many situations. -If you are interested in getting OpenBSD/pmax you can either use the latest -formal release of OpenBSD or one of the snapshots of OpenBSD/pmax if you -are interested in tracking the current state - you may get them both from -the usual OpenBSD ftp servers.
+Despite of the fact that the hardware specific code in OpenBSD/pmax -doesn't differ much from NetBSD/pmax, -you get all the usual OpenBSD improvements, additions and fixes - most -important here are the security related stuff and fixes. +
+The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen shortly before the +OpenBSD 2.0 release, based on the NetBSD/pmax sources. It was then slowly +brought in shape, becoming self-hosted, and moving to ECOFF, then ELF +binaries. +
-+A few releases later, Thomas Graichen stopped working on this port, and +nobody stepped in. The port was slowly left in oblivion, with no new code and +hardly bugfixes, although releases were still being made. +
-OpenBSD/pmax currently supports the following machines:
++A timid effort was made after the 2.7 release to revive the port, but +MIPS-specific toolchain problems prevented the system from building itself for a +long time, and development went on hiatus again. When the problem was finally +fixed, it was decided however to stop supporting it and remove the code from the +tree. +
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OpenBSD/pmax does currently not run on:
++The last supported OpenBSD/pmax release has been +OpenBSD 2.7. +It is not available on ftp sites anymore, but releases up to 2.3 were +available on CD. +
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+Per Fogelstrom (pefo@OpenBSD.org) -now also has one of the r4000 cpu upgraded decstations ... so i expect -support for them sometime in the future.
- -If something is wrong here - please let me know!
- -Framebuffer:
- -Keep in mind that you need a monitor which can do sync on green- because -all the above framebuffers give sync on green output. Also the monitor -should be multisync-capable or it should have a dec-compatible fixed frequency. -All the above framebuffers should be supported by the x server too.
-Ethernet:
- -SCSI:
- -Misc:
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