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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>OpenBSD/pmax</TITLE> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="the OpenBSD/pmax page"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="openbsd,pmax"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="This document copyright 1996 by OpenBSD."> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; OpenBSD 2.1 i386) [Netscape]"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E"> <P><LINK rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org></P> <H2>OpenBSD/pmax</H2> <P> <HR></P> <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History and status:</strong></font></h3> <P>The pmax port of OpenBSD was started by Thomas Graichen (<A HREF="mailto:graichen@openbsd.org">graichen@OpenBSD.org</A>) 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 <A HREF="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">mail</A>. 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 mailinglists 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 <A HREF="ftp.html">the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</A>.</P> <P>Despite of the fact that the hardware specific code in OpenBSD/pmax doesn't differ much from NetBSD/pmax there are for the system as a whole some ...</P> <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Differences to NetBSD/pmax:</strong></font></h3> <UL> <LI>the port is self-hosting (... that means it only uses in-tree tools - there is no need for external binutils).</LI> <LI>you get all the usual OpenBSD improvements, additions and fixes - most important here the security related stuff and fixes</LI> </UL> <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported machines:</strong></font></h3> <P>OpenBSD/pmax currently supports the following machines:</P> <UL> <LI>decstation 2100 and 3100 (pmin and pmax)</LI> <LI>decstation 5000/120, /125 and /133 (3min)</LI> <LI>decstation 5000/200 (3max)</LI> <LI>decstation 5000/240 (3maxplus)</LI> <LI>decstation 5000/20 and /25 (personal decstation)</LI> </UL> <P>OpenBSD/pmax does currently not run on:</P> <UL> <LI>decstation 5100 (r2000 based cousin of the decstation 3100)</LI> <LI>decsystem 5400 and 5500 (close to mayfair and mayfair II vax with mips cpu)</LI> <LI>decsystem 5800 (close to vax 6300/6300 with mips cpus)</LI> </UL> <P>Per Fogelstrom (<A HREF="mailto:pefo@OpenBSD.org">pefo@OpenBSD.org</A>) now also has one of the r4000 cpu upgraded decstations ... so i expect support for them sometime in the future.</P> <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported devices:</strong></font></h3> <P>If something is wrong here - please let me know!</P> <P>Framebuffer:</P> <UL> <LI>pm mono (1024x864x1) or color (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (pmin and pmax)</LI> <LI>PMAG-DV (1024x864x8) onboard framebuffer (personal decstation)</LI> <LI>PMAG-AA (1280x1024x1) turbochannel framebuffer card - mfb</LI> <LI>PMAG-BA (1024x864x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - cfb</LI> <LI>PMAGB-BA (1280x1024x8) turbochannel framebuffer card - sfb</LI> <P>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.</P> </UL> <P>Ethernet:</P> <UL> <LI>onboard amd lance ethernet interface</LI> <LI>turbochannel amd lance lance interface card</LI> </UL> <P>SCSI:</P> <UL> <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - sii (pmin and pmax)</LI> <LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - asc</LI> <LI>turbochannel dec SCSI controller card - asc</LI> </UL> <P>Misc:</P> <UL> <LI>dec lk201 or compatible keyboard</LI> <LI>dec or compatible mouse</LI> <LI>onboard serial ports on most machines</LI> </UL> <P> <HR><A HREF="plat.html"><IMG height=24 width=24 SRC="back.gif" ALT="OpenBSD" BORDER=0 ></A> <A HREF="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</A> <BR> <FONT SIZE=-1> $OpenBSD: pmax.html,v 1.28 2000/03/25 02:29:50 wvdputte Exp $ </FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML>