Annotation of www/powerpc.html, Revision 1.8
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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>
! 46: <il> Firepower machines
! 47: <il> Motorola Net4000
! 48: <il> Motorola Net6000
! 49: </ul>
! 50: Machines that might work but are unlikely,
! 51: Macs with Openfirmware(PCI machines), and PPCP class machines.
! 52: Supported processors:
! 53: <ul>
! 54: <il>603
! 55: <il>603e
! 56: <il>604
! 57: <il>604ev
! 58: </ul>
! 59: </p>
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! 61: <h3><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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! 64: The powerpc specific portions of the kernel came from the NetBSD port
! 65: by Wolfgang Solfrank. The userland and build tools came from an
! 66: independant and incomplete port by Dale Rahn. Hopefully pieces
! 67: from that other port will be merged, device driver support for
! 68: interrupts and some real driver support.
! 69: The conversion to the Wolfgang port was done because it was running
! 70: multiuser and the other port was still single user out of memory ramdisk
! 71: (no fully working device drivers).
! 72: </p>
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! 75: Contact
! 76: <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a> or
! 77: <a href=mailto:rahnds@openbsd.org>Dale Rahn</a>
! 78: if you are interested in working with other people on this, or need more
1.1 deraadt 79: information.
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