OpenBSD/sparc64 runs on the 64-bit Sun UltraSPARC machines based on
the UltraSPARC I, II, III, IV, T1 and T2 processors, Oracle Sun SPARC
machines based on the SPARC T3, T4, T5, M5 and M6 processors, and the
Fujitsu SPARC64 machines based on the SPARC64-V, SPARC64-VI,
SPARC64-VII and SPARC64-X processors.
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A mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/sparc64 ports is
! available at sparc@openbsd.org.
To join the OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/sparc64 mailing list, send a message
body of "subscribe sparc" to
majordomo@openbsd.org.
Please be sure to check our mailing list policy before
subscribing.
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The current port maintainer is Mark Kettenis
(kettenis@openbsd.org).
Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
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History:
The original port was made for NetBSD by Eduardo Horvath and released for
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OpenBSD/sparc64 runs on the 64-bit Sun UltraSPARC machines based on
the UltraSPARC I, II, III, IV, T1 and T2 processors, Oracle Sun SPARC
machines based on the SPARC T3, T4, T5, M5 and M6 processors, and the
Fujitsu SPARC64 machines based on the SPARC64-V, SPARC64-VI,
SPARC64-VII and SPARC64-X processors.
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A mailing list dedicated to the OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/sparc64 ports is
! available at sparc@openbsd.org.
To join the OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/sparc64 mailing list, send a message
body of "subscribe sparc" to
majordomo@openbsd.org.
Please be sure to check our mailing list policy before
subscribing.
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The current port maintainer is Mark Kettenis
(kettenis@openbsd.org).
Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
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History:
The original port was made for NetBSD by Eduardo Horvath and released for
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Current status:
Currently most of the hardware available to the developers boots
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Current status:
Currently most of the hardware available to the developers boots
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The directions on how to enable the accelerated and unaccelerated X server
! are present in the /usr/X11R6/README file on the installed system.
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Supported hardware:
Supported machines
OpenBSD/sparc64 is known or expected to work on the following machines:
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Ultra 1/1E
Ultra 2
Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation
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The directions on how to enable the accelerated and unaccelerated X server
! are present in the /usr/X11R6/README file on the installed system.
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Supported hardware:
Supported machines
OpenBSD/sparc64 is known or expected to work on the following machines:
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Ultra 1/1E
Ultra 2
Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation
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Sun Fire V480/V880
Sun Fire V490/V890
Sun Fire V1280
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Sun Fire 3800/4800/4810/6800
Sun Fire E2900/E4900/E6900
Sun Fire T1000/T2000
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Netra 1290
Netra T1 100/105
Netra T1 AC200/DC200
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Netra T 1100
Netra T 1120/1125
Netra T 1400/1405
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Naturetech GENIALstation 777S
Naturetech PowerBook 777S
Naturetech PowerBook 888P
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OpenBSD 4.4 may trigger a hardware fault on the SPARC Enterprise
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Naturetech GENIALstation 777S
Naturetech PowerBook 777S
Naturetech PowerBook 888P
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OpenBSD 4.4 may trigger a hardware fault on the SPARC Enterprise
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before OpenBSD can be successfully installed. The SPARC Enterprise
T5120/T5220 needs at least OBP 4.28.0.
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Supported devices
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Processors
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Keyboards/Mice
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Type 4, 5, and 6 keyboards on Zilog serial ports (zskbd)
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Type 4, 5, and 6 keyboards on NS16550 serial ports (comkbd)
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Sun XVR-100 and XVR-300
! (radeonfb)
- 8/24-bit color, accelerated
Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200
! (ifb)
- 24-bit color, accelerated (currently restricted to 8-bit, unaccelerated
on the XVR-500 and XVR-600, accelerated on the Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite and
XVR-1200)
Sun XVR-100 and XVR-300
! (radeonfb)
- 8/24-bit color, accelerated
Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200
! (ifb)
- 24-bit color, accelerated (currently restricted to 8-bit, unaccelerated
on the XVR-500 and XVR-600, accelerated on the Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite and
XVR-1200)
Most of these machines will almost certainly just work. If you have
one of these machines available for testing, please give it a try and
tell us about the result.
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Unsupported machines
The following machines do not run OpenBSD/sparc64 just yet:
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Fujitsu HALstation 330/350/375/385
Fujitsu S-7/300
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Force Computers CPU-56/CPU-56T
Force Computers CPCI-520
Force Computers CPSB-560
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Most of these machines will almost certainly just work. If you have
one of these machines available for testing, please give it a try and
tell us about the result.
Unsupported machines
The following machines do not run OpenBSD/sparc64 just yet:
OpenBSD may trigger a hardware fault on the SPARC Enterprise M3000.
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to allow end users to clear the fault themselves. There is no
evidence that running OpenBSD actually damages the hardware.
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Unsupported devices
SBus cards other than those listed above.
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Hardware documentation:
Previous to 2007, it was extremely difficult or impossible to get much of
the necessary hardware documentation for these machines. Members of our
team (in particular David Gwynne) were instrumental in pressuring and
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Hardware documentation:
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Previous to 2007, it was extremely difficult or impossible to get much of
the necessary hardware documentation for these machines. Members of our
team (in particular David Gwynne) were instrumental in pressuring and
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http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home.
Some documents are still missing at that site, so we ask that interested
developers contact Sun and request additional information.
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Getting and installing OpenBSD/sparc64:
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The latest supported OpenBSD/sparc64 release is
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http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home.
Some documents are still missing at that site, so we ask that interested
developers contact Sun and request additional information.
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Getting and installing OpenBSD/sparc64:
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The latest supported OpenBSD/sparc64 release is
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OpenBSD/sparc64 can be installed or upgraded via CD, floppy boot images on
some models, miniroot images for machines without floppies,
as well as network and diskless installs.
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CD image (installXX.iso)
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RAMDISK
kernel configuration file.
The CD can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with
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boot cdrom
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Floppy A (floppyXX.fs)
Booting off the floppy provides a small ffs filesystem with a kernel
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RAMDISK
kernel configuration file.
The CD can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with
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boot cdrom
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Floppy A (floppyXX.fs)
Booting off the floppy provides a small ffs filesystem with a kernel
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RAMDISKU1
kernel configuration file.
The floppy can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with
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boot floppy
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Floppy B (floppyBXX.fs)
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RAMDISKU1
kernel configuration file.
The floppy can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with
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boot floppy
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Floppy B (floppyBXX.fs)
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RAMDISKU5
kernel configuration file.
The floppy can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with
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boot floppy
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Miniroot (minirootXX.fs)
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RAMDISKU5
kernel configuration file.
The floppy can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with
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boot floppy
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Miniroot (minirootXX.fs)
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installed on the machine.
After dumping the miniroot to the primary swap partition with dd, the
miniroot can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with a command such as
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boot disk:b
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(the disk designation may be different, depending on the chosen swap
partition).
Network boot (ofwboot.net, bsd.rd)
Using a diskless setup, it is also possible to boot the OpenBSD/sparc64
! boot loader, ofwboot.net, from the network via tftp, and access
! the bsd.rd standalone miniroot over NFS.
Refer to the
! diskless(8)
manual page for details on how to setup a network boot environment.
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installed on the machine.
After dumping the miniroot to the primary swap partition with dd, the
miniroot can be booted off the OpenFirmware prompt with a command such as
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boot disk:b
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(the disk designation may be different, depending on the chosen swap
partition).
Network boot (ofwboot.net, bsd.rd)
Using a diskless setup, it is also possible to boot the OpenBSD/sparc64
! boot loader, ofwboot.net, from the network via tftp, and access
! the bsd.rd standalone miniroot over NFS.
Refer to the
! diskless(8)
manual page for details on how to setup a network boot environment.
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Ultra 1, 1E and 2 systems might require a PROM update (they usually don't if
they are able to boot Solaris in 64bit-mode); please refer to the
installation notes for details.
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