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1.15 graichen 15: <P><LINK rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org></P>
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17: <H2>OpenBSD/pmax</H2>
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! 23: We are looking for someone with some time and interest in helping
! 24: with the development of OpenBSD/pmax who also has some skills for
! 25: doing this. Dieter Mayer from Open System Solutions in Munich
! 26: (germany) will provide a complete machine for free for this task.
! 27: Someone from germany would be prefered due to the transport of that
! 28: machine and if this person comes from the area around munich there's
! 29: also the possibility to couple the hacking with some payed system
! 30: administration at Open System Solutions.
! 31: <P>
! 32: We are thinking about:
! 33: <UL>
! 34: <LI>
! 35: bringing the old style scsi subsystem over to the new generic scsi
! 36: framework used by the other architectures
! 37: </LI>
! 38: <LI>
! 39: integration of an Xws (used by X11R6 or newer xservers) compatible
! 40: interface to the console/framebuffer (some ideas for that are
! 41: already available from Dieter Mayer)
! 42: </LI>
! 43: <LI>
! 44: helping in merging over good stuff from NetBSD/pmax
! 45: </LI>
! 46: <LI>
! 47: general development on the pmax (often building and veryfying that
! 48: everything work on the pmax)
! 49: </LI>
! 50: </UL>
! 51: <P>
! 52: if you are interested - please contact dieter@oss.de
! 53: </FONT>
! 54:
1.15 graichen 55: <H3><B>History and status:</B></H3>
56:
57: <P>The pmax port of OpenBSD is being worked on by Thomas Graichen (<A HREF="mailto:graichen@openbsd.org">graichen@OpenBSD.org</A>).
58: From the pmax specific code it is heavily based on NetBSD/pmax. I usually
59: try to keep it in sync with all fixes and improvements from NetBSD/pmax.
60: Starting with the 2.1 release of OpenBSD the pmax port is now no longer
61: only available in form of snapshots but i still plan to make new snapshots
62: of the current state of OpenBSD/pmax from time to time available. So far
63: it is running very stable for me and is also reported to do so from a lot
64: of other people on different kinds of machines. I want to take the chance
65: here to say thanks to Dieter Mayer and Rob Urban for supplying me with
66: the hardware to do the development on. Also i want to thank all the people
1.18 graichen 67: from the NetBSD/pmax team and mailinglists especially Jonathan Stone
68: and Michael Hitch for their help in many situations.
1.15 graichen 69: If you are interested in getting OpenBSD/pmax you can either use the latest
70: formal release of OpenBSD or one of the snapshots of OpenBSD/pmax if you
71: are interested in tracking the current state - you may get them both from
72: <A HREF="ftp.html">the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</A>.</P>
73:
74: <P>I'm very interested in getting feedback from people running OpenBSD/pmax
75: on their machines ... so if you do so - please send me a mail about it
76: ... this way i can get a feeling of how many people are using it - thanks.</P>
77:
78: <P>Despite of the fact that the hardware specific code in OpenBSD/pmax
79: doesn't differ much from NetBSD/pmax there are for the system as a whole
80: some ...</P>
81:
82: <H3><B>Differences to NetBSD/pmax:</B></H3>
83:
84: <UL>
85: <LI>we have native shared libraries (... but also for NetBSD/pmax there
86: are snapshots with shared libraries based mostly on the OpenBSD shared
87: library support from per fogelstrom available now - but the latest formal
88: release of it - 1.2 is completely statically linked)</LI>
89:
90: <LI>the port is self-hosting (... that means it only uses in-tree tools
1.20 todd 91: - there is no need for external binutils).</LI>
1.15 graichen 92:
93: <LI>i try too keep the release of snapshots and releases close to releasing
94: X11 binaries too (X11R5 servers and X11R6 clients - both compiled with
95: ProjectRoot /usr/X11R6) so that you should have a usable system including
96: X11 without having to build or search all the stuff yourself</LI>
97:
98: <LI>you get all the usual OpenBSD improvements, additions and fixes - most
99: important here the security related stuff and fixes</LI>
100:
101: <LI>i have tried to make the installation of the release as simple as possible
102: ... i hope to improve this further with the next release</LI>
103: </UL>
104:
105: <H3>Supported machines:</H3>
106:
107: <P>OpenBSD/pmax currently supports the following machines:</P>
108:
109: <UL>
110: <LI>decstation 2100 and 3100 (pmin and pmax)</LI>
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112: <LI>decstation 5000/120, /125 and /133 (3min)</LI>
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114: <LI>decstation 5000/200 (3max)</LI>
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116: <LI>decstation 5000/240 (3maxplus)</LI>
117:
118: <LI>decstation 5000/20 and /25 (personal decstation)</LI>
119: </UL>
120:
121: <P>OpenBSD/pmax does currently not run on:</P>
122:
123: <UL>
124: <LI>decstation 5100 (r2000 based cousin of the decstation 3100)</LI>
125:
1.16 graichen 126: <LI>decsystem 5400 and 5500 (close to mayfair and mayfair II vax with mips
1.15 graichen 127: cpu)</LI>
128:
1.16 graichen 129: <LI>decsystem 5800 (close to vax 6300/6300 with mips cpus)</LI>
1.15 graichen 130: </UL>
131:
132: <P>Per Fogelstrom (<A HREF="mailto:pefo@OpenBSD.org">pefo@OpenBSD.org</A>)
133: now also has one of the r4000 cpu upgraded decstations ... so i expect
134: support for them soon.</P>
135:
136: <H3><B>Supported devices:</B></H3>
137:
138: <P>If something is wrong here - please let me know!</P>
139:
140: <P>Framebuffer:</P>
141:
142: <UL>
143: <LI>pm mono (1024x864x1) or color (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (pmin
144: and pmax)</LI>
145:
146: <LI>PMAG-DV (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (personal decstation)</LI>
147:
148: <LI>PMAG-AA (1024x864x1) turbochannel framebuffer card - mfb</LI>
149:
1.19 graichen 150: <LI>PMAG-BA (1280x1024x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - cfb</LI>
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152: <LI>PMAGB-BA (1024x864x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - sfb</LI>
153:
154: <P>Keep in mind that you need a monitor which can do sync on green- because
155: all the above framebuffers give sync on green output. Also the monitor
156: should be multisync-capable or it should have a dec-compatible fixed frequency.
157: All the above framebuffers should be supported by the x server too.</P>
158: </UL>
159:
160: <P>Ethernet:</P>
161:
162: <UL>
163: <LI>onboard amd lance ethernet interface</LI>
164:
165: <LI>turbochannel amd lance lance interface card</LI>
166: </UL>
167:
168: <P>SCSI:</P>
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170: <UL>
171: <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - sii (pmin and pmax)</LI>
172:
173: <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - asc</LI>
174:
175: <LI>turbochannel dec SCSI controller card - asc</LI>
176: </UL>
177:
178: <P>Misc:</P>
179:
180: <UL>
181: <LI>dec lk201 or compatible keyboard</LI>
182:
183: <LI>dec or compatible mouse</LI>
184:
185: <LI>onboard serial ports on most machines</LI>
186: </UL>
187:
188: <H3><B>Hints and fixes for OpenBSD/pmax 2.1 release:</B></H3>
189:
190: <P>At this place i plan to collect all hints for the installation of the
1.18 graichen 191: 2.1 release and fixes for problems while doing it to. There is one
192: little problem with the X11R6 clients of the OpenBSD/pmax 2.1
193: distribution which is described in detail on the <a
194: href=errata.html>errata page</a>. Also i want to note that there are
195: some problems with the serial ports in some situations and also with
196: some framebuffers which are partially fixed in the current tree
197: (mostly fixes merged in from NetBSD/pmax). Send me (<A
198: HREF="mailto:graichen@openbsd.org">graichen@OpenBSD.org</A>) a mail if
199: you have problems and want a newer kernel for testing.</P>
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