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! 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font><hr></h2>
! 17:
! 18: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Status:</font></h3>
! 19: <p>
! 20: This is a port of OpenBSD to the Apple PowerMac platform.
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1.23 ! avsm 22: <h3><font color="#0000e0">History:</font></h3>
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1.23 ! avsm 24: <p>
! 25: The powerpc port was first imported into OpenBSD at the end of 1996.
! 26: Portions of the kernel port came from the NetBSD/macppc port, and the
! 27: userland and build ports came from <a href="drahn@openbsd.org">Dale Rahn</a>.
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1.3 fn 29: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 30: Dale added in ELF binary support, and him and Per Fogelstrom
! 31: continued on the general driver support for the next few releases.
! 32: Support was added for OpenFirmware, VI Power4e boards, MCG Powerstack
! 33: machines, Dec 21040, VGA terminal support, and so on.
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35: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 36: In 1998, the focus shifted towards the Apple machines, and Dale Rahn
! 37: started work to make the range of iMacs and PowerMacs work with this port.
! 38: Due to this, official powerpc releases were not made for the 2.6 and 2.7
! 39: releases as work continued. A number of compiler loader issues were resolved,
! 40: a lot of iMac driver support was added, and compatibility with older systems
! 41: was withdrawn to fully concentrate on the Apple machines.
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1.11 deraadt 43: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 44: And now, the 2.8 release at the end of 2000 will be including
! 45: an official powerpc port.
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1.23 ! avsm 47: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Supported Hardware:</font></h3>
1.11 deraadt 48: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 49: Currently only New World machines are supported. Tested working machines
! 50: are the iMac machines Rev A - Rev C, and the PowerMac G4 systems including
! 51: the Cube. To improve the list below, <b>please</b> mail your dmesg after
! 52: installation to <a href="mailto:dmesg@openbsd.org">dmesg@openbsd.org</a>,
! 53: as detailed <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#4.5">in the FAQ</a>.
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55: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 56: <b>Machines</b>
! 57: <ul>
! 58: <li>PowerMac G4
! 59: <li>iMac Rev A - Rev C
! 60: <li>iMac DV/DV+ (untested but expected to work)
! 61: </ul>
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1.23 ! avsm 63: <p>
! 64: <b>Onboard I/O modules</b> (obio)
! 65: <ul>
! 66: <li>Apple Paddington
! 67: <li>Apple Keylargo
! 68: </ul>
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70: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 71: <b>PCI-Bridges</b>
1.11 deraadt 72: <ul>
1.23 ! avsm 73: <li>Apple Uni-North (pchb)
! 74: <li>Apple Uni-North AGP (pchb)
! 75: <li>Apple Uni-North Eth (pchb)
! 76: <li>Motorola MPC106 Host-PCI
! 77: </ul>
! 78:
! 79: <p>
! 80: <b>Video Cards</b>
1.8 rahnds 81: <ul>
1.23 ! avsm 82: <li>ATI Rage Fury AGP4x
! 83: <li>ATI Mach64 GP
1.20 rahnds 84: </ul>
1.23 ! avsm 85:
! 86: <p><b>Ethernet</b>
1.20 rahnds 87: <ul>
1.23 ! avsm 88: <li>DEC DECchip 21040 (Tulip) (de)
! 89: <li>Intel 82557 Etherexpress (fxp)
! 90: <li>Apple GMAC (gm0)
! 91: <li>Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface (ukphy)
1.8 rahnds 92: </ul>
1.23 ! avsm 93:
! 94: <p><b>Hard Drive</b>
! 95: <ul>
! 96: <li>Maxtor 52732U6 (wd)
! 97: <li>WDC AC26400R (wd)
! 98: <li>WDC AC36400L (wd)
! 99: <li>IBM-DPTA-371020 (wd)
! 100: <li>Quantum Fireball ST4300A (wd)
1.11 deraadt 101: </ul>
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1.23 ! avsm 103: <p><b>ATAPI Drives</b>
1.8 rahnds 104: <ul>
1.23 ! avsm 105: <li>Matshita PD-2 LF-D110, A110, SCSI0 5/cdrom removable (cd)
! 106: <li>Matshita CD-ROM CR-175, 5ADF, SCSI0 5/cdrom removable (cd)
! 107: <li>Iomega Zip 100, 04.H, SCSI0 0/direct removable (sd)
! 108: </ul>
! 109:
! 110: <p><b>SCSI Host Adapters</b>
1.11 deraadt 111: <ul>
1.23 ! avsm 112: <li>Symbios Logic 53c810 (ncr)
1.8 rahnds 113: </ul>
1.23 ! avsm 114:
! 115: <p><b>SCSI Storage</b>
! 116: <ul>
! 117: <li>Yamaha CRW6416S, 1.0b, SCSI2 5/cdrom removable (cd)
! 118: <li>Seagate ST31230W, 0660, SCSI2 0/direct fixed (sd)
! 119: </ul>
! 120:
! 121: <p><b>USB Controllers/Hubs</b>
! 122: <ul>
! 123: <li>Apple USB (ohci)
! 124: <li>OHCI root hub (ohci)
! 125: <li>Opti RM861HA (ohci)
! 126: <li>Alps Electric Hub in Apple USB Keyboard
1.11 deraadt 127: </ul>
1.23 ! avsm 128:
! 129: <p><b>USB Devices</b>
! 130: <ul>
! 131: <li>Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard (ukbd)
! 132: <li>Solid Year Keyboard and Mouse (ukbd) (ums)
! 133: <li>Logitech M4848 (ums)
! 134: <li>Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse (ums)
! 135: </ul>
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1.23 ! avsm 137: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 138: <p>
1.23 ! avsm 139: <a name="#unsup"><h3><font color=#0000e0>Unsupported Hardware:</font></h3>
1.8 rahnds 140: <ul>
1.23 ! avsm 141: <li>
! 142: Support for older PREP style machines have been removed; lack of availability
! 143: of the hardware and relatively slow speed compared to more recent machines has
! 144: contributed to this decision.
! 145: <li>
! 146: Apple PowerMac systems with a 601 processor or lack OpenFirmware
! 147: will likely never be supported.
! 148: <li>
! 149: At the current time, older OpenFirmware machines are not supported.
! 150: This is mostly due to lack of developer resources to work on the support
! 151: in addition to limited availability of hardware.
! 152: <li>On the device side, the following are recognized, but not supported:
! 153: <ul>
! 154: <li>Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 FireWire
! 155: </ul>
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1.23 ! avsm 158: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Root Drive:</font></h3>
! 159: <p>
! 160: With multiple drives installed in the system, only certain drives can
! 161: be configured as an OpenBSD root drive. Any other configurations than
! 162: those below will not be able to properly detect which drive is the root
! 163: drive, and so any attempt with either prompt for a root drive, or fail.
! 164: <p>
! 165: <ul>
! 166: <li><tt>ultra0</tt> is always fine to use as an root drive.
! 167: <li><tt>ultra1</tt> is fine to use as a root disk (as long as <tt>ultra0</tt>
! 168: is a hard drive, not ATAPI).
! 169: <li>If no hard drive is located at <tt>ultra1</tt>, it is possible to use a
! 170: hard drive configured as <tt>ide1</tt> (zip bay) as root drive.
! 171: <li>It is not possible to use <tt>ide0</tt> (CD-ROM) as a root drive unless
! 172: no drives are connected to the Ultra IDE bus.
! 173: </ul>
! 174:
! 175: <h3><font color="#0000e0">X Resolution:</font></h3>
! 176: <p>
! 177: The current X server has no mechanism to change the resolution
! 178: of the display. To change the resolution, it is necessary to boot MacOS
! 179: and change to the desired resolution under MacOS. It will save that
! 180: resolution and OpenFirmware will boot in that resolution until connected
! 181: to a different monitor. The X server will run in whatever resolution
! 182: OpenFirmware boots in.
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1.23 ! avsm 184: <hr>
! 185: <p>If you are looking for to test new pre-release features, you can
! 186: try one of the snapshots.
! 187: For the powerpc architecture, <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/powerpc/snapshots">snapshots</a> are made available from time to time.
1.22 rahnds 188: <p>
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1.8 rahnds 190: Contact
1.23 ! avsm 191: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a> or
! 192: <a href="mailto:drahn@openbsd.org">Dale Rahn</a>
1.8 rahnds 193: if you are interested in working with other people on this, or need more
1.1 deraadt 194: information.
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