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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,
                     51: Macs with Openfirmware(PCI machines), and PPCP class machines.
                     52: Supported processors:
                     53: <ul>
1.9     ! rahnds     54: <li>603
        !            55: <li>603e
        !            56: <li>604
        !            57: <li>604ev
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                     59: </p>
                     60:
                     61: <h3><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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                     63: <p>
                     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>
                     73:
                     74: <p>
                     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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