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