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1.15      tb         16: <h2>
                     17: <a href="index.html">
                     18: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
                     19: <font color="#e00000">solbourne</font>
                     20: </h2>
1.1       miod       21: <hr>
1.15      tb         22: <p>
1.1       miod       23:
                     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.
                     27:
1.14      deraadt    28: <br clear=all>
                     29: <hr>
1.1       miod       30:
                     31: <a name="history"></a>
                     32: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     33:
                     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...
                     39:
                     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...
                     46:
                     47: <hr>
                     48: <a name="status"></a>
                     49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     50:
                     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.
                     54:
                     55: <p>
                     56: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
                     57: being worked on.
                     58:
                     59: <hr>
                     60: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     61: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     62:
                     63: <p>
                     64: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                     65:
                     66: <p>
                     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>
                     72:
                     73: <p>
                     74: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
                     75:
                     76: <ul>
                     77: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
                     78:   <ul>
                     79:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.17    ! tb         80: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=zs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=solbourne">zs</a>)
1.1       miod       81:   </ul>
                     82:
                     83: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
                     84:   <ul>
1.17    ! tb         85:    <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?arch=solbourne&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
1.1       miod       86:   </ul>
                     87: </ul>
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