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<p>

OpenBSD/sparc can be reasonably described as a continuation of the

NetBSD/sparc development with improvements. The current status is

somewhere between under development and ready for gneral use, in that

somewhere between under development and ready for general use, in that

it does support many of the Sparc based systems and their peripherals,

and can be quite reliable depending on the system configuration and

usage.

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<p>

The installation tools and process as of the 2.0 release are currently not

The installation tools and process as of the 2.1 release are greatly

in user-friendly form, as most developers short-cut the process from running

improved over previous releases of OpenBSD. OpenBSD/sparc can be installed

SunOS or OpenBSD systems. This situation is currently being improved.

or upgraded via floppy boot images on sun4c and sun4m, miniroot images

for machines without floppies (and sun4 machines).

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<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

combinations do not work reliably.

combinations do not work reliably, as well as a few odd memory

configurations.

<li> Typically it works on faithful clones of these machines

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<h4>Supported devices. This list of basically declares that any `stock' sun4c

"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> 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. As well, P4 cgeight may work

<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> 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> 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")

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<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

<li> SBus cgeight 24-bit video card (note: SBus cgeight is quite different from

VME cgeight)

<li> sbus cards other than the standard video/scsi/ethernet listed above

<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> SBus cards other than the standard video/scsi/ethernet listed above

<li> On-board Audio and ISDN hardware present on some sun4m systems

<li> Multiple Processors/Modules in sun4m systems (OpenBSD will run, but only uses one processor)

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