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--- www/sparc64.html	2006/08/31 06:35:12	1.203
+++ www/sparc64.html	2006/09/01 07:26:26	1.204
@@ -67,9 +67,18 @@
 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
-work is continuing...
+nature of UltraSPARC in many obscure places have been fixed.
 
+<p>
+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.
+
+<p>
+And since there are always little bits missing, work is continuing...
+
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 <a name="status"></a>
 <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
@@ -1026,7 +1035,7 @@
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 <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
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-<small>$OpenBSD: sparc64.html,v 1.203 2006/08/31 06:35:12 brad Exp $</small>
+<small>$OpenBSD: sparc64.html,v 1.204 2006/09/01 07:26:26 deraadt Exp $</small>
 
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