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  <p>
  OpenBSD 3.0 was the first official release of OpenBSD/sparc64, and since
  that release support for many more devices has been added (including
! devices required for X11R6 support) and bugs exposed by the 64 bit big endian
! nature of UltraSPARC in many obscure places have been fixed.
  
  <p>
  Sun refused access to the neccessary documentation for the (very bizzare)
! host bridge in the UltraSPARC III machines, so a few years were lost before
! some reverse engineering figured out the changes in these machines.
! OpenBSD 4.0 has thus been the first release to ship with support for the
  UltraSPARC III based machines.
  
  <p>
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  <p>
  OpenBSD 3.0 was the first official release of OpenBSD/sparc64, and since
  that release support for many more devices has been added (including
! devices required for X11R6 support).  The rest of the architectures that
! OpenBSD supports have benefitted because some kinds of bugs are
! exposed more often by the 64-bit big endian nature of UltraSPARC.
  
  <p>
  Sun refused access to the neccessary documentation for the (very bizzare)
! host bridge and caches in the UltraSPARC III machines, so a few years were
! lost before some reverse engineering figured out the changes in these
! machines (and the undocumented processor bugs, too).  In 2007, Sun
! <a href="#hwdocs">was finally convinced</a> to release the missing
! information, and development progress became more rapid.
! 
! <p>
! OpenBSD 4.0 was the first release to ship with support for the
  UltraSPARC III based machines.
  
  <p>
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   <li>Fix BE64 issues in the userland as they are discovered
   <li>Improve architecture specific documentation
   <li>Provide accelerated X servers for the cgsix and creator frame buffers
+  <li>Fix the CDROM interrupt spin that some machines see.
+  <li>Fix the vga / schizo crashes that occur on some machines.
  </ul>
  
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  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware documentation:</strong></font></h3>
  
  <p>
- This list has been originally posted by Marcus Watts to the sparc mailing list.
  
- <p>
- <ul>
- <li>UltraSPARC User's manual - UltraSPARC-I, II <a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals/802-7220-02.pdf"><small><font color="#e00000">(PDF)</font></small></a>
- <li>UltraSPARC-IIi - User's Manual <a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals/805-0087.pdf"><small><font color="#e00000">(PDF)</font></small></a>
- <li>UltraSPARC IIi User's Manual - Addendum <a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals/ultrasparc-IIi_add.pdf"><small><font color="#e00000">(PDF)</font></small></a>
- <li>The SPARC Architecture Manual Version 9 <a href="http://www.sparc.org/standards/v9.ps.Z"><small><font color="#e00000">(PostScript)</font></small></a>
- <li>Implementation Characteristics of Current SPARC-V9-based Products <a href="http://www.sparc.org/standards/SPARCV9.pdf"><small><font color="#e00000">(PDF)</font></small></a>
- <li>VIS Instruction Set - User's Manual <a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals/805-1394.pdf"><small><font color="#e00000">(PDF)</font></small></a>
- </ul>
- 
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  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Hardware documentation:</strong></font></h3>
  
+ Previous to 2007, it was extremely difficult or impossible to get much of
+ the neccessary hardware documentation for these machines.   Members of our
+ team (in particular David Gwynne) were instrumental in pressuring and
+ convincing Sun to go back into their archives and dig up the data sheets
+ that they had written in-house, describing the operation of their chips to
+ their own engineers.  These documents can now be found at
+ <a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home">
+ http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home</a>.
+ Some documents are still missing at that site, so we ask that interested
+ developers contact Sun and request additional information.
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