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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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1.22 graichen 22: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History and status:</strong></font></h3>
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24: <P>The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen (<A
1.24 todd 25: HREF="mailto:graichen@openbsd.org">graichen@OpenBSD.org</A>) shortly
1.25 millert 26: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release. It is currently without a maintainer.
27: If you would like to maintain the port, hardware is available so please
28: send <A HREF="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">mail</A>.
1.22 graichen 29: From the pmax specific code it is heavily based on NetBSD/pmax.
30: I want to take the chance
31: here to say thanks to Dieter Mayer and Rob Urban for supplying me (Thomas) with
1.15 graichen 32: the hardware to do the development on. Also i want to thank all the people
1.18 graichen 33: from the NetBSD/pmax team and mailinglists especially Jonathan Stone
34: and Michael Hitch for their help in many situations.
1.15 graichen 35: If you are interested in getting OpenBSD/pmax you can either use the latest
36: formal release of OpenBSD or one of the snapshots of OpenBSD/pmax if you
37: are interested in tracking the current state - you may get them both from
38: <A HREF="ftp.html">the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</A>.</P>
39:
40: <P>Despite of the fact that the hardware specific code in OpenBSD/pmax
41: doesn't differ much from NetBSD/pmax there are for the system as a whole
42: some ...</P>
43:
1.22 graichen 44: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Differences to NetBSD/pmax:</strong></font></h3>
1.15 graichen 45:
46: <UL>
47: <LI>the port is self-hosting (... that means it only uses in-tree tools
1.20 todd 48: - there is no need for external binutils).</LI>
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50: <LI>you get all the usual OpenBSD improvements, additions and fixes - most
51: important here the security related stuff and fixes</LI>
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53: </UL>
54:
1.22 graichen 55: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported machines:</strong></font></h3>
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57: <P>OpenBSD/pmax currently supports the following machines:</P>
58:
59: <UL>
60: <LI>decstation 2100 and 3100 (pmin and pmax)</LI>
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62: <LI>decstation 5000/120, /125 and /133 (3min)</LI>
63:
64: <LI>decstation 5000/200 (3max)</LI>
65:
66: <LI>decstation 5000/240 (3maxplus)</LI>
67:
68: <LI>decstation 5000/20 and /25 (personal decstation)</LI>
69: </UL>
70:
71: <P>OpenBSD/pmax does currently not run on:</P>
72:
73: <UL>
74: <LI>decstation 5100 (r2000 based cousin of the decstation 3100)</LI>
75:
1.16 graichen 76: <LI>decsystem 5400 and 5500 (close to mayfair and mayfair II vax with mips
1.15 graichen 77: cpu)</LI>
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1.16 graichen 79: <LI>decsystem 5800 (close to vax 6300/6300 with mips cpus)</LI>
1.15 graichen 80: </UL>
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82: <P>Per Fogelstrom (<A HREF="mailto:pefo@OpenBSD.org">pefo@OpenBSD.org</A>)
83: now also has one of the r4000 cpu upgraded decstations ... so i expect
1.22 graichen 84: support for them sometime in the future.</P>
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1.22 graichen 86: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported devices:</strong></font></h3>
1.15 graichen 87:
88: <P>If something is wrong here - please let me know!</P>
89:
90: <P>Framebuffer:</P>
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92: <UL>
93: <LI>pm mono (1024x864x1) or color (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (pmin
94: and pmax)</LI>
95:
96: <LI>PMAG-DV (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (personal decstation)</LI>
97:
1.26 deraadt 98: <LI>PMAG-AA (1280x1024x1) turbochannel framebuffer card - mfb</LI>
1.15 graichen 99:
1.26 deraadt 100: <LI>PMAG-BA (1024x864x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - cfb</LI>
1.15 graichen 101:
1.27 ! deraadt 102: <LI>PMAGB-BA (1280x1024x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - sfb</LI>
1.15 graichen 103:
104: <P>Keep in mind that you need a monitor which can do sync on green- because
105: all the above framebuffers give sync on green output. Also the monitor
106: should be multisync-capable or it should have a dec-compatible fixed frequency.
107: All the above framebuffers should be supported by the x server too.</P>
108: </UL>
109:
110: <P>Ethernet:</P>
111:
112: <UL>
113: <LI>onboard amd lance ethernet interface</LI>
114:
115: <LI>turbochannel amd lance lance interface card</LI>
116: </UL>
117:
118: <P>SCSI:</P>
119:
120: <UL>
121: <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - sii (pmin and pmax)</LI>
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123: <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - asc</LI>
124:
125: <LI>turbochannel dec SCSI controller card - asc</LI>
126: </UL>
127:
128: <P>Misc:</P>
129:
130: <UL>
131: <LI>dec lk201 or compatible keyboard</LI>
132:
133: <LI>dec or compatible mouse</LI>
134:
135: <LI>onboard serial ports on most machines</LI>
136: </UL>
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