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                     18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/solbourne</font></h2>
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                     21:
                     22: <p>
                     23: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne ``IDT''
                     24: family of workstations, built upon the sparc-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
                     25: processor.
                     26:
                     27: <p>
                     28: The current port maintainer is Miod Vallat
                     29: (<a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>).
                     30: Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
                     31: </p>
                     32:
                     33: <a href="#toc"></a>
                     34: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
                     35: <p>
                     36: <ul>
                     37:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     38:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     39:   <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
                     40:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
                     41: </ul>
                     42:
                     43: <hr>
                     44: <a name="history"></a>
                     45: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     46:
                     47: <p>
                     48: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
                     49: set similar to the sparc processors, uses a completely different MMU.
                     50: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
                     51: machines more than a few minutes...
                     52:
                     53: <p>
                     54: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
                     55: had no excuse not to work on a port.
                     56: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
                     57: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
                     58: later. And work continues...
                     59:
                     60: <hr>
                     61: <a name="status"></a>
                     62: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     63:
                     64: <p>
                     65: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
                     66: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
                     67:
                     68: <p>
                     69: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
                     70: being worked on.
                     71:
                     72: <hr>
                     73: <a name="projects"></a>
                     74: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
                     75: </strong></font></h3>
                     76:
                     77: <p>
                     78: <ul>
                     79:   <li>Fix the remaining userland problems.
                     80:   <li>Write drivers for the on-board devices (SCSI, audio, keyboard)
                     81:   <li>Write drivers for Solbourne specific SBus frame buffers
                     82:   <li>Write an FCode interpreter, in order to support recent SBus cards the PROM
                     83:   does not configure.
                     84: </ul>
                     85:
                     86: <hr>
                     87: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     88: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     89:
                     90: <p>
                     91: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                     92:
                     93: <p>
                     94: <ul>
                     95: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
                     96: <li>S4000
                     97: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
                     98: </ul>
                     99:
                    100: <p>
                    101: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
                    102:
                    103: <ul>
                    104: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
                    105:   <ul>
                    106:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.2     ! miod      107: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=solbourne">zs</a>)
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                    109:
                    110: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
                    111:   <ul>
1.2     ! miod      112:    <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=solbourne&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
1.1       miod      113:   </ul>
                    114: </ul>
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