[BACK]Return to pmax.html CVS log [TXT][DIR] Up to [local] / www
File: [local] / www / pmax.html (download) (as text)

Revision 1.31, Thu Nov 23 18:05:37 2000 UTC (23 years, 6 months ago) by jufi
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.30: +2 -2 lines 


<link> belongs in the <head> </head> section..

<!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]">
   <LINK rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E">


<H2>OpenBSD/pmax</H2>

<P>
<HR></P>

<h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History and status:</strong></font></h3>

<strong>
Free pmax machines available for developers, just ask
Dieter Mayer <dieter@oss.de>.
</strong>
<p>

<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&nbsp;controller - sii (pmin and pmax)</LI>

<LI>onboard dec SCSI controller - asc</LI>

<LI>turbochannel dec SCSI&nbsp;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 1.31 2000/11/23 18:05:37 jufi Exp $
</FONT> </P>

</BODY>
</HTML>