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The OpenBSD/sgi port has its roots in the OpenBSD/arc port created early in the OpenBSD history. ARC support was rather soon discontinued due to the lack of interest and availability of decent hardware. -
+Eventually SGI hardware became more affordable and obtainable, and interest for an SGI port in the tree increased. The final piece, a working 64 bit toolchain, eventually became available and allowed the 64 bit SGI OpenBSD port to appear in 2004. -
+Hardware support was initially limited to the O2 workstations. Efforts to port to more systems did not really start until 2008, where the first @@ -57,14 +57,13 @@ with support for Origin family systems as well, allowing OpenBSD to be the first free operating system to run on the Fuel workstations, and even later, also on Origin 350 servers. -
+The earlier generation of R4000 Indigo, Indy and Indigo2 was not forgotten either and support for it appeared in 2012. This paved the way for R8000 and R10000 POWER Indigo2 support as well. -
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on such setups the kernel will be limited to serial console operation only.
An X server, currently unaccelerated, is also available for IP32 (O2) systems.
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The latest supported OpenBSD/sgi release is @@ -268,6 +267,3 @@ Here are the OpenBSD/sgi snapshot installation instructions as well. - - -