Annotation of www/solbourne.html, Revision 1.19
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1.18 bentley 12: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
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1.18 bentley 14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
15: solbourne
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1.1 miod 17: <hr>
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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.
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1.18 bentley 28: <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
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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...
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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
1.19 ! tj 41: later.
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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,
1.19 ! tj 49: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported.
1.1 miod 50:
51: <p>
1.19 ! tj 52: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues.
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56: <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>
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58: <p>
59: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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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>
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68: <p>
69: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
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71: <ul>
72: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
73: <ul>
74: <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
75: </ul>
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77: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
78: <ul>
1.19 ! tj 79: <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet
1.1 miod 80: </ul>
81: </ul>