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17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/solbourne</font></h2>
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22: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne ``IDT''
1.4 jsg 23: family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
1.1 miod 24: processor.
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1.1 miod 27: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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29: <ul>
30: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
31: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
32: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
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36: <a name="history"></a>
37: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
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40: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
1.4 jsg 41: set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU.
1.1 miod 42: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
43: machines more than a few minutes...
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46: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
47: had no excuse not to work on a port.
48: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
49: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
50: later. And work continues...
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53: <a name="status"></a>
54: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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57: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
58: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
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61: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
62: being worked on.
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66: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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69: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
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73: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
74: <li>S4000
75: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
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79: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
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82: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
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84: <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
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88: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
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1.2 miod 90: <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=solbourne&query=le&sektion=4">le</a>)
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