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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.
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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
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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.
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66: <h3><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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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).
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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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