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                     18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc</font></h2>
1.1       deraadt    19:
1.3       fn         20: <hr>
1.50      jason      21:
                     22: <p>
                     23: OpenBSD/sparc runs on most of the 32bit Sun SPARC workstations, including
1.119     miod       24: the sun4, sun4c, and sun4m architecture families
                     25: (but not the 64bit UltraSPARC computers, which are supported by
1.106     jason      26: <a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>).
1.119     miod       27: </p>
                     28:
                     29: <p>
                     30: A mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/sparc64 ports is
                     31: available at <u><font color="#23238e">sparc@openbsd.org</font></u>.
                     32: To join the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
                     33: sparc"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@openbsd.org">majordomo@openbsd.org</a>.
                     34: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
                     35: subscribing.
                     36: </p>
                     37:
                     38: <p>
                     39: The current port maintainer is Art Grabowski
                     40: (<a href="mailto:art@openbsd.org">art@openbsd.org</a>), with the help of
                     41: mainly Jason Wright, Theo de Raadt, and Miodrag Vallat.
1.56      aaron      42: Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
1.50      jason      43: </p>
                     44:
1.119     miod       45: <a href="#toc"></a>
1.118     jufi       46: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.29      downsj     47: <p>
                     48: <ul>
1.123     jufi       49:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.119     miod       50:   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
                     51:   <li><a href="#projects">Project list</a>
1.122     miod       52:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware list</a>
1.119     miod       53:   <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sparc</a>
1.29      downsj     54: </ul>
1.119     miod       55: </p>
1.29      downsj     56:
                     57: <hr>
1.119     miod       58: <a name="history"></a>
1.118     jufi       59: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.3       fn         60:
                     61: <p>
1.126     jufi       62: The original 4.4BSD port was done by Chris Torek as a contract to
1.50      jason      63: LBL. The code was released by Chris in mid-1993, and Theo de Raadt
1.1       deraadt    64: worked it into shape for the NetBSD tree.  Theo and Markus Wild worked
                     65: on improving Chris' original SunOS compatibility code into a highly
                     66: complete and reliable emulation. Chuck Cranor ported the sun4c code to
1.119     miod       67: the 8KB pagesize sun4 architecture, and Theo merged this code in a
1.1       deraadt    68: way that would allow the same kernel and programs to run on either
1.64      jason      69: sun4c or sun4 machines (unlike Sun's separate kernel environments).
1.1       deraadt    70: This last change also required a rewrite of the device configuration
1.25      johns      71: code.  Just after the NetBSD/sparc 1.0 release, Peter Galbavy wrote an
                     72: ESP scsi device driver as a replacement for Chris' sparc-specific scsi
1.119     miod       73: code.
1.3       fn         74: </p>
1.1       deraadt    75:
                     76: <p>
                     77: At this point a conflict emerged between Theo and the other people he
                     78: started the NetBSD project with, and Theo was forced by the core group
                     79: to resign from NetBSD.  After Theo left NetBSD, a few people in the
                     80: NetBSD group did some other things for the port: Paul Kranenburg
                     81: ported a floppy driver and started writing support for the 4/400.
                     82: Chuck spent many long hours working on the ie, xy, xd device drivers.
1.3       fn         83: </p>
1.1       deraadt    84:
                     85: <p>
                     86: Theo continued working independently, and made a number of additions:
1.119     miod       87: P4 support, flexible boot strategy, a few graphics drivers with the help
                     88: from John Stone, and masses of bug fixes.
1.3       fn         89: </p>
1.1       deraadt    90:
                     91: <p>
1.25      johns      92: Work on porting OpenBSD/sparc to the sun4m platform was started by Theo,
1.36      todd       93: but tendinitis problems with his wrists and the problems with the NetBSD
1.119     miod       94: core combined made him stop this work. The initial sun4m work was passed
1.7       deraadt    95: to Aaron Brown of Harvard, who was paid out of Margo Seltzer's research
1.119     miod       96: funds. This initial stuff consisted mostly of a few attempts at building
1.8       deraadt    97: pmap structure that could support all 3 MMU types efficiently.  Also,
1.119     miod       98: David Miller of the UltraLinux project got a little bit involved.
1.7       deraadt    99: </p>
                    100:
                    101: <p>
1.27      downsj    102: Theo and Jason Downs merged the NetBSD sparc code back into OpenBSD, making
1.50      jason     103: OpenBSD/sparc usable again.  Jason Wright wrote a few new SBus Ethernet
1.119     miod      104: drivers with information from the UltraLinux project and has merged a few bits
1.50      jason     105: from NetBSD sources to improve the stability of this architecture.
1.119     miod      106: Over the time, Art Grabowski fixed various stability or reliability issues,
                    107: and added non-executable stack and heap on sun4m machines.
                    108: The frame buffer and console code was completely overhauled for OpenBSD 3.2,
                    109: improving display speed with some frame buffers, and supporting more cards.
1.50      jason     110: </p>
                    111:
                    112: <p>
                    113: And work continues...
1.3       fn        114: </p>
1.1       deraadt   115:
1.28      downsj    116: <hr>
1.119     miod      117: <a name="status"></a>
                    118: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
1.28      downsj    119:
1.1       deraadt   120: <p>
1.119     miod      121: Currently, all the hardware listed in the
                    122: <a href="#hardware">supported hardware list</a> section below boots
                    123: multi-user, and supports enough (if not all) of the on-board devices to
                    124: be generally useable.
1.129     miod      125: A growing set of third-party SBus cards are also supported.
1.50      jason     126: </p>
                    127:
                    128: <p>
1.132     jmc       129: XFree86 works on all supported frame buffers, including
1.119     miod      130: multi-head configurations.
                    131: No accelerated server is provided at the moment, although this is being
                    132: worked on.
1.6       downsj    133: </p>
                    134:
                    135: <p>
1.25      johns     136: An important note about OpenBSD/sparc is that it is designed so that
1.30      downsj    137: a single kernel can run on <b>ALL SUPPORTED</b> sparc machines.  Whereas
1.92      jufi      138: SunOS and Solaris have always had separate `kernel architectures', i.e. sun4,
1.26      downsj    139: sun4c, and sun4m, the same `GENERIC' OpenBSD kernel will run on all the
                    140: supported models.
1.15      grr       141: </p>
                    142:
                    143: <p>
1.50      jason     144: Most of the problems with OpenBSD/sparc are believed to stem from the wide
                    145: variety of sparc processor and cache implementations along with their
                    146: undocumented bugs, rather then general kernel problems.
1.15      grr       147: Feedback on which models do and do not work reliably is
1.77      deraadt   148: appreciated, particularly with newer models or upgrades.
1.15      grr       149: </p>
                    150:
1.119     miod      151: <hr>
                    152: <a name="projects"></a>
                    153: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects (in no particular order):
                    154: </strong></font></h3>
                    155:
1.15      grr       156: <p>
1.119     miod      157: <ul>
                    158:   <li>Write drivers for more unsupported devices (audio, frame buffer...)
                    159:   <li>Provide an accelerated X server for the cgsix frame buffer
                    160:   <li>Merge in useful NetBSD work.
                    161: </ul>
1.3       fn        162: </p>
                    163:
                    164: <hr>
1.119     miod      165: <a name="hardware"></a>
                    166: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
1.3       fn        167:
1.22      johns     168: <p>
1.119     miod      169: <h4>Supported machines</h4>
                    170: </p>
1.1       deraadt   171:
1.119     miod      172: <p>
1.3       fn        173: <ul>
1.70      deraadt   174: <li> sun4: the VME series
                    175:        <ul>
                    176:        <li>4/100: Original sparc with VME.  Many hardware bugs.
                    177:        <li>4/200: A fairly decent VME-only machine
                    178:        <li>4/300: a 25MHz VME machine with many devices built onto the main board.
1.85      miod      179:            In other respects, it is quite similar to the SS1+.
1.70      deraadt   180:        </ul>
1.119     miod      181:
1.70      deraadt   182: <li> sun4c:
                    183:        <ul>
1.73      deraadt   184:        <li>SS1: the original 20MHz sun4c.
                    185:                (Hardware limitations prevent SBus DMA peripherals from working
                    186:                in some of the slots).
                    187:        <li>SS1+: 25MHz version of the above.
                    188:                (Hardware limitations prevent SBus DMA peripherals from working
                    189:                in some of the slots).
1.95      miod      190:        <li>IPC: SS1+ in a cube, with bwtwo graphics builtin
1.79      rohee     191:        <li>SLC: SS1+ built into a B&amp;W monitor
1.70      deraadt   192:        <li>SS2: 40MHz version of the SS1
                    193:        <li>IPX: SS2 in a cube, with cgsix graphics builtin
1.79      rohee     194:        <li>ELC: SS2-performance built into a B&amp;W monitor
1.70      deraadt   195:        </ul>
1.119     miod      196:
1.70      deraadt   197: <li> sun4m:
                    198:        <ul>
1.119     miod      199:        <li>600MP: The original Sun4m machine.
                    200:            This is a <a href="#mbus">mbus</a> machine with SBus and VME buses.
1.73      deraadt   201:        <li>LC: 50MHz MicroSPARC-1 based machines (aka Classic)
1.70      deraadt   202:        <li>LX: LC with a few more devices
1.75      deraadt   203:        <li>SS4: Reduced cost version of the SS5, available at 70MHz and 110MHz
1.77      deraadt   204:        <li>SS5: MicroSPARC-2 based machines available in 60, 70, 85,
                    205:            and 110 MHz versions
                    206:        <li>SS5: TurboSPARC cpus in accelerated SS5 machines, running at 170 MHz
1.118     jufi      207:        <li>SS10: Pizzabox <a href="#mbus">mbus</a>-based machine
                    208:        <li>SS20: Improved Pizzabox <a href="#mbus">mbus</a>-based machine
1.136     miod      209:        <li>Sun Voyager
1.70      deraadt   210:        </ul>
1.119     miod      211: </ul>
                    212: </p>
1.73      deraadt   213:
1.70      deraadt   214: <p>
1.134     miod      215: The following Sparc clones are also supported: (non exhaustive list)
1.119     miod      216: <ul>
1.73      deraadt   217:        <li>Aries Research Inc, Parrot II (SS2 clone)
1.84      art       218:        <li>Axil 243 and 245 (and possibly other models) (SS5 clones)
1.89      art       219:        <li>Axil 320 (SS20 clone)
1.134     miod      220:        <li>CPU5V: VME card by Force Computer (sun4m)
                    221:        <li>DTKstation/Classic+
                    222:        <li>Fujitsu S-4/Leia2 (MicroSPARC-2 laptop)
                    223:        <li>Goldstar GWS-40 (SS2 clone)
1.73      deraadt   224:        <li>Opus 5000 (SS1 clone)
                    225:        <li>Opus 5250 (SS1 clone)
1.134     miod      226:        <li>RDI,PowerLite: sun4m models, available in 50MHz, 85MHz, and 110MHz
                    227:        <li>RDI,BrigeLite
                    228:        <li>SPARCbook 3GX, 3GS, and 3XP by Tadpole (MicroSPARC-2 laptops)
1.111     miod      229:        <li>Tatung micro COMPstation 5 (SS5 clone)
1.73      deraadt   230:        <li>Tatung micro COMPstation LX (LX clone)
1.134     miod      231:        <li>Tatung TWS,SuperCOMPstation-20S (SS20 clone)
1.73      deraadt   232:        <li>Transtec SS5/170
1.3       fn        233: </ul>
1.119     miod      234: </p>
1.50      jason     235:
1.119     miod      236: <p>
1.50      jason     237: <h4>Supported devices</h4>
1.119     miod      238: </p>
1.50      jason     239:
1.119     miod      240: <p>
                    241: This list of devices basically declares that any ``stock'' sun4c or sun4m
1.129     miod      242: ``SPARCstation'' or ``SPARCserver'' machine will probably work; for sun4
                    243: machines one must be more careful.
1.119     miod      244: </p>
1.50      jason     245:
1.118     jufi      246: <a name=mbus></a>
1.119     miod      247: <p>
1.3       fn        248: <ul>
1.119     miod      249: <li><strong>Mbus CPU modules</strong>
1.71      deraadt   250:   <ul>
1.119     miod      251:    <li>SM30:   30 or 36 MHz SuperSPARC with no secondary cache
                    252:    <li>SM40:   40 MHz SuperSPARC with no secondary cache
                    253:    <li>SM41:   40 MHz SuperSPARC with 1MB of secondary cache
                    254:    <li>SM50:   50 MHz SuperSPARC with no secondary cache
                    255:    <li>SM51:   50 MHz SuperSPARC with 1MB of secondary cache
                    256:    <li>SM51-2: 50 MHz SuperSPARC with 2MB of secondary cache
                    257:    <li>SM61:   60 MHz SuperSPARC with 1MB of secondary cache
                    258:    <li>SM61-2: 60 MHz SuperSPARC with 2MB of secondary cache
                    259:    <li>SM71:   75 MHz SuperSPARC with 1MB of secondary cache
                    260:    <li>SM81:   85 MHz SuperSPARC with 1MB of secondary cache
                    261:    <li>SM81-2: 85 MHz SuperSPARC with 2MB of secondary cache
1.135     miod      262:    <li>SM100:  dual 40 MHz Cypress 7C605 with 64KB of primary cache
1.119     miod      263:    <li>Ross HyperSparc RT620/RT625 at 90MHz, with 256KB of primary cache
                    264:    <li>Ross HyperSparc RT620/RT625 at 125MHz, with 256KB of primary cache
                    265:    <li>Ross HyperSparc RT620/RT625 at 150MHz, with 512KB of primary cache
                    266:    <li>Ross HyperSparc RT620/RT625 at 166MHz, with 512KB of primary cache
1.71      deraadt   267:   </ul>
                    268:
1.119     miod      269: <li><strong>Sun keyboard and mouse</strong>
1.50      jason     270:   <ul>
1.119     miod      271:    <li>Type 2, 3, 4, and 5 keyboards with several layouts
                    272: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zskbd&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">zskbd</a>)
1.50      jason     273:   </ul>
1.19      johns     274:
1.119     miod      275: <li><strong>Floppy drives</strong>
1.19      johns     276:   <ul>
1.119     miod      277:    <li>sun4c and sun4m floppy disk drive
                    278: <!-- (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fd&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">fd</a>) -->
1.19      johns     279:   </ul>
                    280:
1.119     miod      281: <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
1.19      johns     282:   <ul>
1.119     miod      283:    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
                    284: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">zs</a>)
                    285:        (can be used as console if needed)
                    286:    <li>4/300 ttyc and ttyd on-board serial ports
                    287: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">zs</a>)
                    288:    <li>SBus magma serial port cards, including: 4Sp, 8Sp, 12Sp, 16Sp, LC2+1Sp,
                    289:        2+1Sp, 4+1Sp, 8+2Sp, and 2+1HS Sp.
                    290: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=magma&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">magma</a>)
                    291:    <li>SBus Serial/Parallel Interfaces (SUNW,spif, 501-1931)
                    292: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spif&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">spif</a>)
1.19      johns     293:   </ul>
                    294:
1.119     miod      295: <li><strong>Audio support</strong>
1.19      johns     296:   <ul>
1.55      aaron     297:    <li>on-board audio support for systems with AMD79C30 8-bit audio chips
1.66      jason     298:        (this includes sun4c models, SPARCclassic, and 600MP)
1.119     miod      299: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audioamd&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">audioamd</a>)
                    300:    <li>SUNW,CS4231 16-bit audio chips found on SPARCstation 4/5
1.129     miod      301: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audiocs&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc">audiocs</a>)
1.19      johns     302:   </ul>
                    303:
1.119     miod      304: <li><strong>Frame buffers</strong>
1.19      johns     305:   <ul>
1.111     miod      306:   <li>SBus and sun4c/sun4m on-board video:
1.19      johns     307:     <ul>
1.118     jufi      308:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=bwtwo&amp;sektion=4">bwtwo</a> - black and white
                    309:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgthree&amp;sektion=4">cgthree</a> - 8-bit color, unaccelerated
1.50      jason     310:        <br>The cgthree driver also supports the cgRDI, an onboard
1.119     miod      311:            cgthree-like frame buffer found in some laptops.
1.118     jufi      312:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=cgsix">cgsix</a> - 8-bit color, accelerated (GX, GX+, TGX, TGX+)
1.50      jason     313:        <br>This should work with most faithful emulations/clones of the
                    314:            SBus cgsix.
1.118     jufi      315:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=cgtwelve">cgtwelve</a> - 24-bit color, accelerated (but the driver does not support hardware acceleration)
                    316:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=cgfourteen">cgfourteen</a> - 8 or 24-bit color, accelerated (but the driver does not support hardware acceleration)
1.128     miod      317:      <li>Fujitsu AG-10e
                    318: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=agten">agten</a>)
                    319: - 24-bit color, accelerated (currently only supported in unaccelerated 8-bit
1.136     miod      320: mode)
1.127     miod      321:      <li>Parallax XVideo and PowerVideo
                    322: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=tvtwo">tvtwo</a>)
                    323: - 24-bit color, accelerated (but the driver does not support hardware
1.136     miod      324: acceleration)
1.118     jufi      325:      <li>p9100 ("<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=pnozz">pnozz</a>") - found in Tadpole SPARCbook 3GS and 3GX (8-bit unaccelerated)
                    326:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=tcx">tcx</a> - 8 or 24-bit color, accelerated
1.119     miod      327:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=vigra">Vigra</a> VS10 and VS12 SBus frame buffers - 8-bit color, unaccelerated, selectable VGA and Sun-compatible video modes
1.130     miod      328:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;sektion=4&amp;query=zx">ZX</a>
                    329:        (aka <i>Leo</i>) - 8 or 24-bit color, overlay planes,
1.131     miod      330:        double-buffered, 3-D acceleration <font color="#e00000">*</font>
1.19      johns     331:     </ul>
                    332:
1.119     miod      333:   <li>4/200 on-board <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=bwtwo&amp;sektion=4">bwtwo</a>
1.19      johns     334:
1.119     miod      335:   <li>P4 video (4/100 and 4/300):
1.19      johns     336:     <ul>
1.118     jufi      337:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=bwtwo&amp;sektion=4">bwtwo</a> - black and white
                    338:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgthree&amp;sektion=4">cgthree</a> - 8-bit color, unaccelerated
                    339:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgfour&amp;sektion=4">cgfour</a> - 8-bit color, 1-bit overlay, unaccelerated
                    340:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgsix&amp;sektion=4">cgsix</a> - 8-bit color, accelerated
                    341:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgeight&amp;sektion=4">cgeight</a> - 24-bit color, 1-bit overlay, unaccelerated
1.19      johns     342:     </ul>
                    343:
1.119     miod      344:   <li>VME video (sun4):
1.19      johns     345:     <ul>
1.118     jufi      346:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgtwo&amp;sektion=4">cgtwo</a> - 8-bit color, unaccelerated
                    347:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgthree&amp;sektion=4">cgthree</a> - 8-bit color, unaccelerated
                    348:      <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=cgsix&amp;sektion=4">cgsix</a> - 8-bit color, accelerated
1.19      johns     349:     </ul>
                    350:   </ul>
                    351:
1.119     miod      352: <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
1.19      johns     353:   <ul>
1.118     jufi      354:    <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
                    355:    <li>SBus AMD Lance Ethernet cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
1.119     miod      356:    <li>SBus cards containing both AMD Lance
                    357: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=le&amp;sektion=4">le</a>)
                    358: and SCSI
                    359: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=esp&amp;sektion=4">esp</a>)
1.118     jufi      360:    <li>on-board Intel 82586 Ethernet 4/100 and 4/200 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=ie&amp;sektion=4">ie</a>)
                    361:    <li>VME Intel 82586 Ethernet cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=ie&amp;sektion=4">ie</a>)
1.125     fgsch     362:    <li>SBus 10/100Mbit qec+be found on Sun FastEthernet cards (SUNW,501-2450)
1.118     jufi      363:        (aka. Sun Fast Ethernet 1.x) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=be&amp;sektion=4">be</a>)
                    364:    <li>SBus Quad 10Mbit qec+qe found on Sun Quad Ethernet cards (SUNW,501-2062) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=qe&amp;sektion=4">qe</a>)
                    365:    <li>SBus 10/100Mbit hme Ethernet cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=hme&amp;sektion=4">hme</a>)
                    366: <font color="#e00000">*</font>
                    367:    <li>SBus 10/100Mbit SunSwift SUNW,fas Ethernet+SCSI cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=hme&amp;sektion=4">hme</a>)
                    368: <font color="#e00000">*</font>
1.107     deraadt   369:    <li>SBus Quad 10/100Mbit hme and qfe Ethernet cards
1.118     jufi      370:         (aka. Sun Quad Fast Ethernet 2.x) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=hme&amp;sektion=4">hme</a>)
                    371: <font color="#e00000">*</font>
1.19      johns     372:   </ul>
                    373:
1.119     miod      374: <li><strong>SCSI controllers</strong>
1.19      johns     375:   <ul>
1.118     jufi      376:    <li>on-board SCSI controller (sun4c, sun4m, and 4/300) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=esp&amp;sektion=4">esp</a>)
1.111     miod      377:    <li>SBus SCSI controllers (Also works with several 3rd party
1.118     jufi      378:        compatible boards) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=esp&amp;sektion=4">esp</a>)
                    379:    <li>SBus cards containing both AMD Lance and SCSI (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=esp&amp;sektion=4">esp</a>)
                    380:    <li>VME "SUN-3"/"si" SCSI controller (interrupt driven DMA) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=si&amp;sektion=4">si</a>)
                    381:    <li>4/110 "SCSI Weird" on-board controller (polled DMA) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=sw&amp;sektion=4">sw</a>)
                    382:    <li>QSP/ISP SCSI controllers (i.e. "PTI,ptisp", "ptisp", "SUNW,isp" and "QLGC,isp") (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=isp&amp;sektion=4">isp</a>)
1.19      johns     383:   </ul>
                    384:
1.119     miod      385: <li><strong>SMD and other disk controllers</strong>
1.19      johns     386:   <ul>
1.118     jufi      387:    <li>Xylogics 7053 VME SMD disk controller (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=xd&amp;sektion=4">xd</a>)
                    388:    <li>Xylogics 450/451 VME SMD disk controller (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=xy&amp;sektion=4">xy</a>)
1.19      johns     389:   </ul>
                    390:
1.119     miod      391: <li><strong>Miscellaneous</strong>
1.65      jason     392:   <ul>
1.118     jufi      393:    <li>SBus Expansion Subsystem (SUNW,xbox) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=xbox&amp;sektion=4">xbox</a>)
                    394:    <li>Force FGA5000 VME/SBus bridge (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=fga&amp;sektion=4">fga</a>)
                    395:    <li>Force system configuration registers (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=scf&amp;sektion=4">scf</a>)
                    396:    <li>Force flash memory (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=flash&amp;sektion=4">flash</a>)
                    397:    <li>Tadpole microcontroller (power/system control) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;query=tctrlp&amp;sektion=4">tctrl</a>)
1.133     miod      398:    <li>Prestoserve NVRAM SBus cards (limited support) (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&amp;qauery=presto&amp;sektion=4">presto</a>)
                    399: <font color="#0000e0">*</font>
1.65      jason     400:   </ul>
1.133     miod      401: <font color="#0000e0">*</font> Support added after 3.3.
1.3       fn        402: </ul>
1.131     miod      403: <font color="#e00000">*</font> Not supported in sun4c-class machines due
                    404: to PROM limitations.
1.119     miod      405: </p>
                    406:
                    407: <p>
                    408: <h4>Unsupported machines</h4>
                    409: </p>
1.1       deraadt   410:
1.119     miod      411: <p>
1.3       fn        412: <ul>
1.129     miod      413:  <li>sun4: 4/400 (lacks support for the I/O cache, and has ethernet problems)
1.119     miod      414:  <li>sun4d machines:
                    415:    <ul>
                    416:       <li>SPARC Server 1000</li>
                    417:       <li>SPARC Center 2000</li>
                    418:    </ul>
1.129     miod      419:    These machines use XD-Bus instead of M-Bus for their CPUs, which is not
                    420:    supported yet.
1.119     miod      421:  <li>JavaStation-NC (lacks support for this machine's PCI bus)
                    422:  <li>sun4u: UltraSPARC 64-bit machines.  Some of these are supported in the
1.97      miod      423:       <a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a> port.
1.129     miod      424:  <li>Solbourne machines: these machines are quite different, and some are
                    425:    plagued by processor bugs.
1.135     miod      426:  <li>Tadpole SPARCbook 1, LC and 2: these machines use quite unusual components,
                    427:    and do not have a Sun-compatible PROM.
1.3       fn        428: </ul>
1.119     miod      429: </p>
                    430:
                    431: <p>
                    432: <h4>Unsupported Devices</h4>
                    433: </p>
                    434:
                    435: <p>
                    436: First of all, there are MANY unsupported devices.
                    437: A comprehensive list can probably not be written.
                    438: </p>
1.19      johns     439:
1.119     miod      440: <p>
1.3       fn        441: <ul>
1.119     miod      442: <li><strong>Serial Cards</strong>
1.19      johns     443:   <ul>
1.50      jason     444:    <li> VME mti 16-port serial card
                    445:    <li> VME alm2 16-port serial card
1.111     miod      446:    <li> VME mcp 4-port serial card (or is it 8-port)
1.19      johns     447:   </ul>
                    448:
1.119     miod      449: <li><strong>Disk Controllers</strong>
1.19      johns     450:   <ul>
1.50      jason     451:    <li> VME "sc" SCSI controller
                    452:    <li> VME IPI controller
1.19      johns     453:   </ul>
                    454:
1.119     miod      455: <li><strong>Frame buffers</strong>
1.19      johns     456:   <ul>
1.50      jason     457:    <li> VME cgfive, 8-bit color, 1-bit overlay, double-buffered,
                    458:        unaccelerated without GP/GP2
                    459:    <li> VME cgnine, 24-bit color, 1-bit overlay, double-buffered,
                    460:        unaccelerated without GP/GP2
                    461:    <li> VME GP/GP2 Graphics Processor (drives a cgfive or cgnine)
                    462:    <li> SBus cgeight 24-bit color, unaccelerated
                    463:        (note: SBus cgeight is quite different from VME/P4 cgeight)
                    464:    <li> SBus GT, 24-bit color, 8-bit color, overlay planes, double-buffered,
                    465:        3-D acceleration (aka Graphics Tower)
                    466:   </ul>
                    467:
1.74      deraadt   468: <li><strong>On-board Audio and ISDN</strong><br>
1.119     miod      469:   This is present on some sun4m systems (LX, LC, SPARCstation 10/20).
                    470:
1.74      deraadt   471: <li><strong>Multiple Processors/Modules in sun4m systems</strong><br>
1.119     miod      472:   OpenBSD will sometimes not boot on some machines with multiple processors.
                    473:   If this is the case, the extra CPUs must be removed.
                    474:
1.111     miod      475: <li><strong>SBus SUNW,bpp (parallel port)</strong><br>
1.119     miod      476:   A driver exists in the source tree, but it does not work.  None of the
                    477:   developers have printers or cables to work with, to make it work, but
                    478:   we really would prefer to receive a fixed driver.
                    479:
1.111     miod      480: <li><strong>SBus FAS SCSI controllers</strong><br>
1.119     miod      481:   The FAS-only card is not supported.  The HME+FAS card only supports the
                    482:   HME part of the card.
                    483:
                    484: <li><strong>SBus FDDI cards</strong>
                    485:
1.74      deraadt   486: <li><strong>Tadpole PCMCIA bridge</strong>
1.119     miod      487:
1.121     miod      488: <li><strong>SBus cards other than those listed above...</strong>
1.3       fn        489: </ul>
1.119     miod      490: </p>
1.1       deraadt   491:
1.3       fn        492: <hr>
1.122     miod      493: <a name="install"></a>
                    494: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                    495: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sparc:</strong>
                    496: </font></h3>
                    497:
                    498: <p>
                    499: The latest supported OpenBSD/sparc release is
1.136     miod      500: <a href="33.html">OpenBSD 3.3</a>.
1.122     miod      501: Here are the
1.136     miod      502: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.3/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
                    503: OpenBSD/sparc 3.3 installation instructions
1.122     miod      504: </a>.
                    505: </p>
                    506:
                    507: <p>
                    508: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
                    509: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc">this location</a>
                    510: as well as in a few
                    511: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
                    512: Here are the
                    513: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
                    514: OpenBSD/sparc snapshot installation instructions
                    515: </a> as well.
                    516: </p>
                    517:
                    518: <p>
                    519: There are several installation media provided, so that
                    520: OpenBSD/sparc can be installed or upgraded via CD, floppy boot images on
                    521: sun4c and sun4m, miniroot images for machines without floppies
                    522: (and sun4 machines), as well as network and diskless installs.
                    523: <ul>
                    524:   <li><strong>CD boot</strong>
                    525:   <p>
1.126     jufi      526:   Booting off the CD provides a small ffs filesystem with a GENERIC kernel with
                    527:   drivers for all supported devices found on Sparc machines.<br>
1.122     miod      528:   For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
                    529: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/sparc/conf/GENERIC?rev=HEAD">GENERIC</a>
                    530: kernel configuration file.
                    531:   The CD can be booted off the OpenPROM prompt with
                    532: <pre>
1.136     miod      533:   boot cdrom 3.3/sparc/bsd.rd
1.122     miod      534: </pre>
                    535:   </p></li>
1.137   ! miod      536:   <li><strong>Floppy</strong> (floppy33.fs)
1.122     miod      537:   <p>
                    538:   Booting off the floppy provides a small ffs filesystem with a kernel
                    539:   containing drivers for the most popular devices found on Sparc machines.<br>
                    540:   For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
                    541: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/sparc/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK</a>
                    542: kernel configuration file.
                    543:   The floppy can be booted off the OpenPROM prompt with
                    544: <pre>
                    545:   boot floppy
                    546: </pre>
                    547:   </p></li>
1.137   ! miod      548:   <li><strong>Miniroot</strong> (miniroot33.fs)
1.122     miod      549:   <p>
                    550:   The miniroot provides the same installation environment as the bootable CD,
                    551:   and is intended for easy bootstrap if there is already an operating system
                    552:   installed on the machine.
                    553:   After dumping the miniroot to the primary swap partition with dd, the
                    554:   miniroot can be booted off the OpenPROM prompt with a command such as
                    555: <pre>
                    556:   boot disk:b
                    557: </pre>
                    558:   (the disk designation may be different, depending on the chosen swap
                    559:   partition).
                    560:   </p></li>
                    561:   <li><strong>Netboot</strong> (boot.net, bsd.rd)
                    562:   <p>
                    563:   Using a diskless setup, it is also possible to boot the OpenBSD/sparc
                    564:   boot loader, <tt>boot.net</tt>, from the network via tftp, and access
                    565:   the <tt>bsd.rd</tt> standalone miniroot over NFS.
                    566:   Refer to the
                    567:   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=diskless&amp;sektion=8">diskless(8)</a>
                    568:   manual page for details on how to setup a network boot environment.
                    569:   </p></li>
                    570: </ul>
                    571: </p>
                    572:
                    573: <hr>
1.119     miod      574: <a href="plat.html">
                    575: <img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="Supported platforms">
                    576: </a>
                    577: <br>
                    578: <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
1.3       fn        579: <br>
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1.3       fn        581:
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                    583: </html>