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        !            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&amp;sektion=4&amp;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&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
        !           114:   </ul>
        !           115: </ul>
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        !           122: <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
        !           123: <br>
        !           124: <small>$OpenBSD$</small>
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