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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
1.19    ! tj         41: later.
1.1       miod       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,
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.
1.1       miod       53:
                     54: <hr>
1.18      bentley    55:
                     56: <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>
1.1       miod       57:
                     58: <p>
                     59: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                     60:
                     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>
                     67:
                     68: <p>
                     69: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
                     70:
                     71: <ul>
                     72: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
                     73:   <ul>
                     74:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
                     75:   </ul>
                     76:
                     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>