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Work on porting OpenBSD/sparc to the sun4m platform is currently in

Work on porting OpenBSD/sparc to the sun4m platform was started by Theo,

progress. This work is being done in cooperation between the OpenBSD

but tendonitis problems with his wrists and the problems with the NetBSD

group and a research group at a US university. This research group

core conspired, and he stopped work. Theo passed his initial sun4m work

wishes to remain anonymous at this time. This work should be

to Aaron Brown of Harvard, who was paid out of Margo Seltzer's research

available for integration within the next few months.

funds. This initial stuff consisted mostly of a few attempts at building

pmap structure that could support all 3 MMU types efficiently). Also,

David Miller of the Sparclinux project got a little bit involved.

OpenBSD/sparc can be correctly described as NetBSD/sparc + improvements.

Recently Theo and Jason Downs began merging the NetBSD sparc code back into

OpenBSD. OpenBSD/sparc is becoming usable again. There are still a few

OpenBSD/sparc features from older source trees that need to be re-integrated;

these will likely surface soon.

Recently Theo and Jason Downs began merging the NetBSD sparc code back into

OpenBSD/sparc can be correctly described as NetBSD/sparc + improvements.

OpenBSD. OpenBSD/sparc is becoming usable again.

The people working the most on OpenBSD/sparc currently consists of

Chuck Cranor, Theo de Raadt, and David Miller. Of course, others are

Theo de Raadt, Jason Downs, and probably Chuck Cranor again now that it

very welcome!

once again works.

An important note about OpenBSD/sparc is that it is designed so that

a single kernel can run on *ALL* sparc machines. Whereas SunOS and

Solaris have always had `kernel architectures', ie. sun4, sun4c, and

sun4m, the same `GENERIC' OpenBSD kernel will run on all the models.

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