Annotation of www/solbourne.html, Revision 1.1
1.1 ! miod 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
! 2: "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
! 3: <html>
! 4: <head>
! 5: <title>OpenBSD/sparc</title>
! 6: <link rev="made" href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">
! 7: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
! 8: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
! 9: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/solbourne page">
! 10: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,solbourne,idt,KAP,S4000">
! 11: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
! 12: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 2005 by OpenBSD.">
! 13: </head>
! 14:
! 15: <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#23238e">
! 16: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
! 17: <p>
! 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/solbourne</font></h2>
! 19:
! 20: <hr>
! 21:
! 22: <p>
! 23: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne ``IDT''
! 24: family of workstations, built upon the sparc-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
! 25: processor.
! 26:
! 27: <p>
! 28: The current port maintainer is Miod Vallat
! 29: (<a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>).
! 30: Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
! 31: </p>
! 32:
! 33: <a href="#toc"></a>
! 34: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
! 35: <p>
! 36: <ul>
! 37: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
! 38: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
! 39: <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
! 40: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
! 41: </ul>
! 42:
! 43: <hr>
! 44: <a name="history"></a>
! 45: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
! 46:
! 47: <p>
! 48: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
! 49: set similar to the sparc processors, uses a completely different MMU.
! 50: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
! 51: machines more than a few minutes...
! 52:
! 53: <p>
! 54: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
! 55: had no excuse not to work on a port.
! 56: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
! 57: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
! 58: later. And work continues...
! 59:
! 60: <hr>
! 61: <a name="status"></a>
! 62: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
! 63:
! 64: <p>
! 65: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
! 66: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
! 67:
! 68: <p>
! 69: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
! 70: being worked on.
! 71:
! 72: <hr>
! 73: <a name="projects"></a>
! 74: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
! 75: </strong></font></h3>
! 76:
! 77: <p>
! 78: <ul>
! 79: <li>Fix the remaining userland problems.
! 80: <li>Write drivers for the on-board devices (SCSI, audio, keyboard)
! 81: <li>Write drivers for Solbourne specific SBus frame buffers
! 82: <li>Write an FCode interpreter, in order to support recent SBus cards the PROM
! 83: does not configure.
! 84: </ul>
! 85:
! 86: <hr>
! 87: <a name="hardware"></a>
! 88: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
! 89:
! 90: <p>
! 91: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
! 92:
! 93: <p>
! 94: <ul>
! 95: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
! 96: <li>S4000
! 97: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
! 98: </ul>
! 99:
! 100: <p>
! 101: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
! 102:
! 103: <ul>
! 104: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
! 105: <ul>
! 106: <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
! 107: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=sparc">zs</a>)
! 108: (can be used as console if needed)
! 109: </ul>
! 110:
! 111: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
! 112: <ul>
! 113: <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&query=le&sektion=4">le</a>)
! 114: </ul>
! 115: </ul>
! 116:
! 117: <hr>
! 118: <a href="plat.html">
! 119: <img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="Supported platforms">
! 120: </a>
! 121: <br>
! 122: <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
! 123: <br>
! 124: <small>$OpenBSD$</small>
! 125:
! 126: </body>
! 127: </html>