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The porting to OpenBSD started in August 2001 and in the end of September the

first binary snapshot was released. The porting was done mainly by Jason

Wright and Artur Grabowski and was done on both sbus and PCI machines so that

a decently wide hardware support was ready even before the system could boot

a decently wide range of hardware support was ready even before the system

multiuser.

could boot multiuser.

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Currently most of the hardware available to the developers boots multiuser and

supports enough of the on-board devices to be generally useable. No attempts

have been made for graphics console support yet so only serial or prom consoles

have been made for graphics console support yet, so only serial or prom

are available. The same applies to support of more expansion hardware for

consoles are available. The same applies to support of more expansion hardware

the PCI bus or the SBUS.

for the PCI bus or the SBUS.

There hasn't been a need for a separate mailing list for OpenBSD/sparc64,

There hasn't yet been a need for a separate mailing list for OpenBSD/sparc64,

instead the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list is used.

so the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list is being used. To join the OpenBSD/sparc

To join the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list, send a message body of

mailing list, send a message with a body of "subscribe sparc" to <a

"subscribe sparc" to <a href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">

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<h3>Where to get it:</h3>

There has not been any formal release of OpenBSD/sparc64 yet, but more or less

There has not been any formal release of OpenBSD/sparc64 yet, but more-or-less

functional snapshots are made quite often and can be found at:

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