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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. And

nature of UltraSPARC in many obscure places have been fixed.

work is continuing...

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Sun refused access to the neccessary documentaion 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 is thus the first release to ship with support for the

UltraSPARC III based machines.

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And since there are always little bits missing, work is continuing...

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