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                     18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/solbourne</font></h2>
                     19:
                     20: <hr>
                     21:
                     22: <p>
                     23: OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne ``IDT''
1.4       jsg        24: family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
1.1       miod       25: processor.
                     26:
1.5       nick       27: <a name="toc"></a>
1.1       miod       28: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
                     29: <p>
                     30: <ul>
                     31:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
                     32:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     33:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
                     34: </ul>
                     35:
                     36: <hr>
                     37: <a name="history"></a>
                     38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     39:
                     40: <p>
                     41: The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
1.4       jsg        42: set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU.
1.1       miod       43: Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
                     44: machines more than a few minutes...
                     45:
                     46: <p>
                     47: At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
                     48: had no excuse not to work on a port.
                     49: After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
                     50: march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
                     51: later. And work continues...
                     52:
                     53: <hr>
                     54: <a name="status"></a>
                     55: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     56:
                     57: <p>
                     58: Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
                     59: although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet.
                     60:
                     61: <p>
                     62: Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are
                     63: being worked on.
                     64:
                     65: <hr>
                     66: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     67: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     68:
                     69: <p>
                     70: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                     71:
                     72: <p>
                     73: <ul>
                     74: <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
                     75: <li>S4000
                     76: <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
                     77: </ul>
                     78:
                     79: <p>
                     80: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
                     81:
                     82: <ul>
                     83: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
                     84:   <ul>
                     85:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
1.2       miod       86: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=solbourne">zs</a>)
1.1       miod       87:   </ul>
                     88:
                     89: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
                     90:   <ul>
1.2       miod       91:    <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       92:   </ul>
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