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                     15: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/solbourne</font></h2>
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                     19: <p>
                     20: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne ``IDT''
1.4       jsg        21: family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
1.1       miod       22: processor.
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1.5       nick       24: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1       miod       25: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
                     26: <p>
                     27: <ul>
                     28:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     29:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     30:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
                     31: </ul>
                     32:
                     33: <hr>
                     34: <a name="history"></a>
                     35: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     36:
                     37: <p>
                     38: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
1.4       jsg        39: set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU.
1.1       miod       40: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
                     41: machines more than a few minutes...
                     42:
                     43: <p>
                     44: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
                     45: had no excuse not to work on a port.
                     46: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
                     47: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
                     48: later. And work continues...
                     49:
                     50: <hr>
                     51: <a name="status"></a>
                     52: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     53:
                     54: <p>
                     55: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
                     56: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
                     57:
                     58: <p>
                     59: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
                     60: being worked on.
                     61:
                     62: <hr>
                     63: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     64: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     65:
                     66: <p>
                     67: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                     68:
                     69: <p>
                     70: <ul>
                     71: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
                     72: <li>S4000
                     73: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
                     74: </ul>
                     75:
                     76: <p>
                     77: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
                     78:
                     79: <ul>
                     80: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
                     81:   <ul>
                     82:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.2       miod       83: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=solbourne">zs</a>)
1.1       miod       84:   </ul>
                     85:
                     86: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
                     87:   <ul>
1.2       miod       88:    <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=solbourne&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
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