-Work on porting OpenBSD/sparc to the sun4m platform was started by Theo, +Work on porting OpenBSD to the sun4m platform was started by Theo, but tendonitis problems with his wrists and the problems with the NetBSD core conspired, and he stopped work. Theo passed his initial sun4m work to Aaron Brown of Harvard, who was paid out of Margo Seltzer's research 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. +David Miller of the S/Linux project got a little bit involved.
-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; +Recently Theo and Jason Downs began merging the NetBSD SPARC code back into +OpenBSD. OpenBSD is becoming usable on SPARC again. There are still a few +features from older source trees that need to be re-integrated; these will likely surface soon.
-The people working the most on OpenBSD/sparc are Jason Downs, George Robbins, +The people working the most on OpenBSD for SPARC are Jason Downs, George Robbins, John Stone, and probably Chuck Cranor again now that it 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 +An important note about OpenBSD on SPARC is that it is designed so that +a single kernel can run on ALL SPARC machines. Whereas SunOS and Solaris have always had separate `kernel architectures', ie. sun4, sun4c, and sun4m, the same `GENERIC' OpenBSD kernel will run on all the supported models.
-OpenBSD/sparc can be reasonably described as a continuation of the -NetBSD/sparc development with improvements. The current status is +OpenBSD for 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 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 @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
-Most of the problems are believed to stem from the wide variety of sparc +Most of the problems are believed to stem from the wide variety of SPARC processor and cache implementations along with their undocumented bugs, rather then general kernal problems. Feedback on which models do and do not work reliably is @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
The installation tools and process as of the 2.1 release are greatly -improved over previous releases of OpenBSD. OpenBSD/sparc can be installed +improved over previous releases of OpenBSD. OpenBSD can be installed or upgraded via floppy boot images on sun4c and sun4m, miniroot images for machines without floppies (and sun4 machines).
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
OpenBSD/Sparc on the 4c/4m machines is criticaly dependent on configuration -information returned by the openboot prom. A sparc clone that differs +information returned by the openboot prom. A SPARC clone that differs substantially from the Sun model as far as device names and properties will require additional work in this area. @@ -251,19 +251,33 @@
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+"Sun, Sun Microsystems, and Ultra, are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries." +
+ ++"Products bearing the SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc." +
+ + ++$OpenBSD: sparc.html,v 1.23 1997/06/17 16:51:21 johns Exp $ +