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As such, this is still rather preliminary and should not be considered
! finished. However, if you have PowerPC hardware we would like to know
if it at least boots the install floppy.
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As such, this is still rather preliminary and should not be considered
! finished.
! The port is still not fully stable, but is now running well enough that
! is is reasonable to do system development.
! Hopefully, all stablity problem will be worked on and this will
! become a reasonably useable port.
! However, if you have PowerPC hardware we would like to know
if it at least boots the install floppy.
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The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware
for all device driver needs: console, disk, ethernet. It can be
! installed from floppy and network or cdrom. Netboot and netroot
support exists, but is untested.
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The port does not yet use real device drivers. It uses OpenFirmware
for all device driver needs: console, disk, ethernet. It can be
! installed from netboot, floppy and network or cdrom. Netroot
support exists, but is untested.
+
+ The port has two versions of the kernel, one which only uses openfirmware
+ for all devices, and a version that has been coded to support some MCG
+ PowerStack and VI series machines.
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- Motorola machines
with OpenFirmware (PPC1bug firmware is known not to work):
- Series E
- RiscPC
- Pro2000
- Pro3000
!
- Pro4000
!
- Pro6000
Untested hardware (MAY work -- please mail with results):
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- Motorola machines
with OpenFirmware (PPC1bug firmware is known not to work):
+ (Machines with 603* processors and some version of Motorola openfirmware are known to not work)
- Series E
- RiscPC
- Pro2000
- Pro3000
!
- Pro4000 (* might not work due to IRQ problem)
+ - V-I
+
+
Untested hardware (MAY work -- please mail with results):
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Firepower machines
Motorola Net4000
Motorola Net6000
- V-I
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The conversion to the Wolfgang port was done because it was running
multiuser and the other port was still single user out of memory ramdisk
(no fully working device drivers).
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+ After that work was done Per Fogelstrom added support for the VI Power4e
+ vme board, removing openfirmware device support in the processes. (2.3 release)
+
+ For the 2.4 release, support for the openfirmware devices were added back
+ in a compatible fashion such that mixed ofw drivers and hardware drivers
+ could be supported. After that was finished, the power4e support was adapted
+ to work on the MCG PowerStack machines. Dec 21040, and some vga support was
+ added, vga cannot be used as console yet, but can be used as a terminal.
+ No X servers are supported, but the mechanism to access vga via mmap exists.
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www@openbsd.org
! $OpenBSD: powerpc.html,v 1.19 1998/06/19 15:07:01 pauls Exp $