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Revision 1.18, Mon May 27 22:55:26 2019 UTC (5 years ago) by bentley
Substantially clean up and modernize HTML markup across openbsd.org. This was done with three purposes in mind: - to reduce the massive amount of inline HTML, to be easier on developers adding actual content - to allow running the HTML validator across the source (doing this found many unintentional mistakes in the present code, including at least a dozen cases of half- or fully-invisible text) - to separate content from presentation, so appearance can be controlled through stylesheets Great care was taken to keep all pages, even very old ones, looking the same, give or take a few pixels of whitespace. Much review, critique, and improvement from tj@ |
<!doctype html> <html lang=en id=platform> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>OpenBSD/solbourne</title> <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/solbourne page"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/solbourne.html"> <h2 id=OpenBSD> <a href="index.html"> <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a> solbourne </h2> <hr> <table><tr><td> <p> OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne "IDT" family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i> processor. </table> <hr> <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3> <p> The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU. Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne machines more than a few minutes... <p> At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then had no excuse not to work on a port. After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month later. And work continues... <hr> <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3> <p> Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work, although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported yet. <p> Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues, which are being worked on. <hr> <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3> <p> <h4>Supported machines</h4> <p> <ul> <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i> <li>S4000 <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet) </ul> <p> <h4>Supported devices</h4> <ul> <li><strong>Serial ports</strong> <ul> <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/solbourne/zs.4">zs</a>) </ul> <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong> <ul> <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/solbourne/le.4">le</a>) </ul> </ul>