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! 18: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
! 19: <font color="#e00000">solbourne</font>
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24: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne ``IDT''
1.4 jsg 25: family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
1.1 miod 26: processor.
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31: <a name="history"></a>
32: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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34: <p>
35: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
1.4 jsg 36: set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU.
1.1 miod 37: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
38: machines more than a few minutes...
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40: <p>
41: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
42: had no excuse not to work on a port.
43: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
44: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
45: later. And work continues...
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48: <a name="status"></a>
49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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51: <p>
52: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
53: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
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55: <p>
56: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
57: being worked on.
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61: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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64: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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67: <ul>
68: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
69: <li>S4000
70: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
71: </ul>
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74: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
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76: <ul>
77: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
78: <ul>
79: <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.12 sthen 80: (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=solbourne">zs</a>)
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83: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
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1.13 sthen 85: <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?arch=solbourne&query=le&sektion=4">le</a>)
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