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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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1.29 deraadt 24: <strong>
25: Free pmax machines available for developers, just ask
26: Dieter Mayer <dieter@oss.de>.
1.30 wvdputte 27: </strong>
1.29 deraadt 28: <p>
29:
1.22 graichen 30: <P>The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen (<A
1.24 todd 31: HREF="mailto:graichen@openbsd.org">graichen@OpenBSD.org</A>) shortly
1.25 millert 32: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release. It is currently without a maintainer.
33: If you would like to maintain the port, hardware is available so please
34: send <A HREF="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">mail</A>.
1.22 graichen 35: From the pmax specific code it is heavily based on NetBSD/pmax.
36: I want to take the chance
37: here to say thanks to Dieter Mayer and Rob Urban for supplying me (Thomas) with
1.15 graichen 38: the hardware to do the development on. Also i want to thank all the people
1.18 graichen 39: from the NetBSD/pmax team and mailinglists especially Jonathan Stone
40: and Michael Hitch for their help in many situations.
1.15 graichen 41: If you are interested in getting OpenBSD/pmax you can either use the latest
42: formal release of OpenBSD or one of the snapshots of OpenBSD/pmax if you
43: are interested in tracking the current state - you may get them both from
44: <A HREF="ftp.html">the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</A>.</P>
45:
46: <P>Despite of the fact that the hardware specific code in OpenBSD/pmax
47: doesn't differ much from NetBSD/pmax there are for the system as a whole
48: some ...</P>
49:
1.22 graichen 50: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Differences to NetBSD/pmax:</strong></font></h3>
1.15 graichen 51:
52: <UL>
53: <LI>the port is self-hosting (... that means it only uses in-tree tools
1.20 todd 54: - there is no need for external binutils).</LI>
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56: <LI>you get all the usual OpenBSD improvements, additions and fixes - most
57: important here the security related stuff and fixes</LI>
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59: </UL>
60:
1.22 graichen 61: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported machines:</strong></font></h3>
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63: <P>OpenBSD/pmax currently supports the following machines:</P>
64:
65: <UL>
66: <LI>decstation 2100 and 3100 (pmin and pmax)</LI>
67:
68: <LI>decstation 5000/120, /125 and /133 (3min)</LI>
69:
70: <LI>decstation 5000/200 (3max)</LI>
71:
72: <LI>decstation 5000/240 (3maxplus)</LI>
73:
74: <LI>decstation 5000/20 and /25 (personal decstation)</LI>
75: </UL>
76:
77: <P>OpenBSD/pmax does currently not run on:</P>
78:
79: <UL>
80: <LI>decstation 5100 (r2000 based cousin of the decstation 3100)</LI>
81:
1.16 graichen 82: <LI>decsystem 5400 and 5500 (close to mayfair and mayfair II vax with mips
1.15 graichen 83: cpu)</LI>
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1.16 graichen 85: <LI>decsystem 5800 (close to vax 6300/6300 with mips cpus)</LI>
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87:
88: <P>Per Fogelstrom (<A HREF="mailto:pefo@OpenBSD.org">pefo@OpenBSD.org</A>)
89: now also has one of the r4000 cpu upgraded decstations ... so i expect
1.22 graichen 90: support for them sometime in the future.</P>
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1.22 graichen 92: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported devices:</strong></font></h3>
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94: <P>If something is wrong here - please let me know!</P>
95:
96: <P>Framebuffer:</P>
97:
98: <UL>
99: <LI>pm mono (1024x864x1) or color (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (pmin
100: and pmax)</LI>
101:
102: <LI>PMAG-DV (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (personal decstation)</LI>
103:
1.26 deraadt 104: <LI>PMAG-AA (1280x1024x1) turbochannel framebuffer card - mfb</LI>
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1.26 deraadt 106: <LI>PMAG-BA (1024x864x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - cfb</LI>
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1.27 deraadt 108: <LI>PMAGB-BA (1280x1024x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - sfb</LI>
1.15 graichen 109:
110: <P>Keep in mind that you need a monitor which can do sync on green- because
111: all the above framebuffers give sync on green output. Also the monitor
112: should be multisync-capable or it should have a dec-compatible fixed frequency.
113: All the above framebuffers should be supported by the x server too.</P>
114: </UL>
115:
116: <P>Ethernet:</P>
117:
118: <UL>
119: <LI>onboard amd lance ethernet interface</LI>
120:
121: <LI>turbochannel amd lance lance interface card</LI>
122: </UL>
123:
124: <P>SCSI:</P>
125:
126: <UL>
127: <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - sii (pmin and pmax)</LI>
128:
129: <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - asc</LI>
130:
131: <LI>turbochannel dec SCSI controller card - asc</LI>
132: </UL>
133:
134: <P>Misc:</P>
135:
136: <UL>
137: <LI>dec lk201 or compatible keyboard</LI>
138:
139: <LI>dec or compatible mouse</LI>
140:
141: <LI>onboard serial ports on most machines</LI>
142: </UL>
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