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@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@
 
 <h4>OpenBSD/sparc runs on the following classes of machines:</h4>
 <ul>
-<li> sun4c: the SS1, SS1+, IPC, SLC, SS2, IPX, and ELC
-<li> sun4: the 4/100, 4/200, and 4/300
-<li> sun4m machines: at least the LC, LX, 4, 5, 10, and 20. A few cpu
+<li> sun4: 4/100, 4/200, and 4/300
+<li> sun4c: SS1, SS1+, IPC, SLC, SS2, IPX, and ELC
+<li> sun4m: at least the LC, LX, 4, 5, 10, and 20. A few cpu
 	combinations do not work reliably, as well as a few odd memory
 	configurations.
 <li> Typically it works on faithful clones of these machines
@@ -125,38 +125,87 @@
 "sparcstation" machine will probably work; for sun4 machines one must be more
 careful.</h4>
 <ul>
-<li> sun4c SBus or on-board cgsix, cgthree, and bwtwo
-<li> 4/200 on-board bwtwo
-<li> 4/300 and 4/100 P4 video: bwtwo, cgthree, cgsix, cgeight 
-<li> sun4 VME cgtwo, cgthree, cgsix
-<li> P4 on-board bwtwo, and VME cgtwo card<br>
-<li> ttya and ttyb serial ports (can be used as console if needed)
-<li> 4/300 ttyc and ttyc serial ports
-<li> on-board AMD Lance ethernet
-<li> SBus AMD Lance ethernet cards 
-<li> on-board Intel 82586 ethernet (ie0 on 4/100 and 4/200)
-<li> VME Intel 82586 ethernet cards
-<li> on-board "esp" SCSI controller (sun4c, sun4m, and 4/300)
-<li> SBus "esp" SCSI controller
-<li> VME "SUN-3"/"si" SCSI controller (polled mode only, slow)
-<li> 4/110 "SCSI Weird"/"sw" on-board controller (slow, polled mode)
-<li> Xylogics 7053 VME/SMD disk controller ("xd")
-<li> Xylogics 450/451 VME disk controller ("xy")
-<li> sun4c floppy disk drive
-<li> sun4c audio
-<li> sun keyboard and mouse
+<li> Sun keyboard and mouse
+
+<li> Floppy drives:
+  <ul>
+  <li> sun4c floppy disk drive
+  </ul>
+
+<li> Serial ports:
+  <ul>
+  <li> ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports (can be used as console if needed)
+  <li> 4/300 ttyc and ttyd on-board serial ports
+  </ul>
+
+
+<li> Audio support:
+  <ul>
+  <li> sun4c on-board audio
+  </ul>
+
+<li> Framebuffers:
+  <ul>
+  <li>SBus or sun4c on-board video:
+    <ul>
+    <li>bwtwo - black and white
+    <li>cgthree - 8-bit color, unaccelerated 
+    <li>cgsix - 8-bit color, accelerated (GX, GX+, TGX, TGX+)  Should probably work with most faithful emulations/clones of SBus cgsix..
+    </ul>
+
+  <li> 4/200 on-board bwtwo
+
+  <li> P4 video (4/100 and 4/300):
+    <ul> 
+    <li> bwtwo - black and white
+    <li> cgthree - 8-bit color, unaccelerated
+    <li> cgfour - 8-bit color, 1-bit overlay, unaccelerated
+    <li> cgsix - 8-bit color, accelerated
+    <li> cgeight - 24-bit color, 1-bit overlay, unaccelerated
+    </ul>
+
+  <li> VME video (sun4):
+    <ul>
+    <li> cgtwo - black and white
+    <li> cgthree - 8-bit color, unaccelerated
+    <li> cgsix - 8-bit color, accelerated
+    </ul>
+  </ul>
+
+<li> Ethernet adapters:
+  <ul>
+  <li> on-board AMD Lance ethernet 
+  <li> SBus AMD Lance ethernet cards 
+  <li> on-board Intel 82586 ethernet (ie0 on 4/100 and 4/200)
+  <li> VME Intel 82586 ethernet cards
+  </ul>
+
+<li> SCSI controllers:
+  <ul>
+  <li> on-board "esp" SCSI controller (sun4c, sun4m, and 4/300)
+  <li> SBus "esp" SCSI controller
+  <li> VME "SUN-3"/"si" SCSI controller (polled mode only, slow)
+  <li> 4/110 "SCSI Weird"/"sw" on-board controller (slow, polled mode)
+  </ul>
+
+<li> SMD and other disk controllers
+  <ul>
+  <li> Xylogics 7053 VME/SMD disk controller ("xd")
+  <li> Xylogics 450/451 VME disk controller ("xy")
+  </ul>
+
 </ul>
 
 <h4>OpenBSD/sparc does *not* run on these machines (yet):</h4>
 <ul>
-<li> 4/400 (lacks support for the I/O cache, and has ethernet problems)
-<li> older sun4m systems with Viking (TMS390Z55) processor modules without
-external cache chips, aka SuperCache, aka MXCC, aka PAC.
-<li> the VME sun4m model --4/600
-<li> sun4d: sparc center 1000/2000
-<li> the new Ultra sparc-64 machines...
+<li> sun4: 4/400 (lacks support for the I/O cache, and has ethernet problems)
+<li> sun4m: older systems with Viking (TMS390Z55) processor modules without external cache chips, aka SuperCache, aka MXCC, aka PAC.
+<li> sun4m: model 4/600 -- uses auxio registers, sun4m VME, I/O cache?
+<li> sun4d: SPARC Server 1000, SPARC Center 2000 -- XD-Bus vs. M-Bus, MP issues.
+<li> sun4u: UltraSPARC 64-bit machines.
 <li> It does not work on most Solbourne machines, which are quite different.
 </ul>
+
 <p>
 OpenBSD/Sparc on the 4c/4m machines is criticaly dependent on configuration
 information returned by the openboot prom.  A sparc clone that differs
@@ -166,20 +215,31 @@
 <h4>Unsupported Devices. First of all, there are MANY unsupported devices.
 A comprehensive list can probably not be written.</h4>
 <ul>
-<li> VME mti 16-port serial card
-<li> VME alm2 16-port serial card
-<li> VME mcp 4-port serial card (or is it 8 port)
-<li> VME "sc" SCSI controller
-<li> VME IPI controller
-<li> VME cgfive
-<li> VME cgnine
-<li> VME GP/GP2 Graphics Processor
-<li> SBus cgeight 24-bit video card (note: SBus cgeight is quite different from
-    VME cgeight)
-<li> SBus GS framebuffer (aka cgtwelve)
-<li> SBus GT framebuffer (aka Graphics Tower)
-<li> SS20 SX framebuffer (aka cgfourteen)
-<li> SBus ZX framebuffer (aka Leo)
+<li> Serial Cards:
+  <ul>
+  <li> VME mti 16-port serial card
+  <li> VME alm2 16-port serial card
+  <li> VME mcp 4-port serial card (or is it 8 port)
+  </ul>
+
+<li>Disk Controllers:
+  <ul>
+  <li> VME "sc" SCSI controller
+  <li> VME IPI controller
+  </ul>
+ 
+<li> Framebuffers:
+  <ul>
+  <li> VME cgfive, 8-bit color, 1-bit overlay, double-buffered, unaccelerated without GP/GP2
+  <li> VME cgnine, 24-bit color, 1-bit overlay, double-buffered, unaccelerated without GP/GP2
+  <li> VME GP/GP2 Graphics Processor (drives a cgfive or cgnine)
+  <li> SBus cgeight 24-bit color, unaccelerated (note: SBus cgeight is quite different from VME/P4 cgeight)
+  <li> SBus GS, 24-bit color, 8-bit color, overlay planes, double-buffered, 3-D acceleration (aka cgtwelve) 
+  <li> SBus GT, 24-bit color, 8-bit color, overlay planes, double-buffered, 3-D acceleration (aka Graphics Tower)
+  <li> SS20 SX, 24-bit color, 8-bit color, overlay planes, potentially double-buffered, accelerated (aka cgfourteen)
+  <li> SBus ZX, 24-bit color, 8-bit color, overlay planes, double-buffered, 3-D acceleration (aka Leo)
+  </ul>
+
 <li> SBus cards other than the standard video/scsi/ethernet listed above
 <li> On-board Audio and ISDN hardware present on some sun4m systems
 <li> sun4m floppies (OpenBSD can boot/install from them though)  
@@ -190,7 +250,7 @@
 <a href=plat.html><img src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
 <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
 <br>
-<small>$OpenBSD: sparc.html,v 1.18 1997/05/26 07:36:14 johns Exp $</small>
+<small>$OpenBSD: sparc.html,v 1.19 1997/06/12 04:33:00 johns Exp $</small>
 
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