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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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27: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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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...
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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...
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44: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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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.
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51: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
52: being worked on.
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56: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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59: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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63: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
64: <li>S4000
65: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
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69: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
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72: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
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74: <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.12 sthen 75: (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=solbourne">zs</a>)
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78: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
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1.13 sthen 80: <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?arch=solbourne&query=le&sektion=4">le</a>)
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