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1.8       rahnds     15: <h2>OpenBSD/powerpc</h2>
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1.8       rahnds     18: <h3><strong>Status:</strong></h3>
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1.8       rahnds     21: A snapshot for the powerpc has been made available.
                     22: This is still rather preliminary and should not be considered
                     23: finished, it is currently about beta level.
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1.8       rahnds     27: The port does not yet contain real device drivers. It currently uses
                     28: openfirmware for all device driver needs, console, disk, ethernet.
                     29: It can be installed from floppy and network or cdrom. Netboot and netroot
                     30: support is there but untested.
                     31: </p>
                     32:
                     33: <p>
                     34: Currently known working hardware include the following Motorola machines
                     35: with OpenFirmware, PPC1bug firmware is known not to work:
                     36: <ul>
                     37: <li>Series E
                     38: <li>RiscPC
                     39: <li>Pro2000
                     40: <li>Pro3000
                     41: <li>Pro4000
                     42: <li>Pro6000
                     43: </ul>
                     44: Other machines that should work but are untested:
                     45: <ul>
1.9       rahnds     46: <li> Firepower machines
                     47: <li> Motorola Net4000
                     48: <li> Motorola Net6000
1.8       rahnds     49: </ul>
                     50: Machines that might work but are unlikely,
1.10    ! briggs     51: PPCP class machines.
1.8       rahnds     52: Supported processors:
                     53: <ul>
1.9       rahnds     54: <li>603
                     55: <li>603e
                     56: <li>604
                     57: <li>604ev
1.8       rahnds     58: </ul>
1.10    ! briggs     59: Machines that are close to working:
        !            60: Apple PowerMac systems with at least a 603 processor and OpenFirmware.
        !            61: The Apple implementation of OpenFirmware does not support loading of ELF
        !            62: executables (like the boot-blocks for this port), so this issue must be
        !            63: resolved.
1.8       rahnds     64: </p>
                     65:
                     66: <h3><strong>History:</strong></h3>
                     67:
                     68: <p>
                     69: The powerpc specific portions of the kernel came from the NetBSD port
                     70: by Wolfgang Solfrank. The userland and build tools came from an
                     71: independant and incomplete port by Dale Rahn. Hopefully pieces
                     72: from that other port will be merged, device driver support for
                     73: interrupts and some real driver support.
                     74: The conversion to the Wolfgang port was done because it was running
                     75: multiuser and the other port was still single user out of memory ramdisk
                     76: (no fully working device drivers).
                     77: </p>
                     78:
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                     80: Contact
                     81: <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a> or
1.10    ! briggs     82: <a href=mailto:rahnds@openbsd.org>Dale Rahn</a> or
        !            83: <a href=mailto:briggs@openbsd.org>Allen Briggs</a> (for powermac)
1.8       rahnds     84: if you are interested in working with other people on this, or need more
1.1       deraadt    85: information.
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