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1.18    ! bentley     1: <!doctype html>
        !             2: <html lang=en id=platform>
        !             3: <meta charset=utf-8>
        !             4:
1.3       martin      5: <title>OpenBSD/solbourne</title>
1.1       miod        6: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/solbourne page">
1.15      tb          7: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
                      8: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css">
1.16      tb          9: <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/solbourne.html">
1.1       miod       10:
                     11:
1.18    ! bentley    12: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
1.15      tb         13: <a href="index.html">
1.18    ! bentley    14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
        !            15: solbourne
1.15      tb         16: </h2>
1.1       miod       17: <hr>
1.18    ! bentley    18:
        !            19: <table><tr><td>
1.15      tb         20: <p>
1.18    ! bentley    21: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne "IDT"
1.4       jsg        22: family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
1.1       miod       23: processor.
1.18    ! bentley    24: </table>
1.1       miod       25:
1.14      deraadt    26: <hr>
1.1       miod       27:
1.18    ! bentley    28: <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
1.1       miod       29:
                     30: <p>
                     31: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
1.4       jsg        32: set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU.
1.1       miod       33: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
                     34: machines more than a few minutes...
                     35:
                     36: <p>
                     37: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
                     38: had no excuse not to work on a port.
                     39: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
                     40: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
                     41: later. And work continues...
                     42:
                     43: <hr>
1.18    ! bentley    44:
        !            45: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
1.1       miod       46:
                     47: <p>
                     48: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
                     49: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
                     50:
                     51: <p>
                     52: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
                     53: being worked on.
                     54:
                     55: <hr>
1.18    ! bentley    56:
        !            57: <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>
1.1       miod       58:
                     59: <p>
                     60: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                     61:
                     62: <p>
                     63: <ul>
                     64: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
                     65: <li>S4000
                     66: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
                     67: </ul>
                     68:
                     69: <p>
                     70: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
                     71:
                     72: <ul>
                     73: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
                     74:   <ul>
                     75:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.18    ! bentley    76: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/solbourne/zs.4">zs</a>)
1.1       miod       77:   </ul>
                     78:
                     79: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
                     80:   <ul>
1.18    ! bentley    81:    <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/solbourne/le.4">le</a>)
1.1       miod       82:   </ul>
                     83: </ul>