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15: <h2>OpenBSD/sparc64</h2>
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1.4 art 20: OpenBSD/sparc64 runs on the 64bit Sun UltraSPARC machines.
21: The current port maintainer is Jason Wright
22: (<a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">jason@openbsd.org</a>).
23: Others are welcome to contribute.
1.1 mickey 24: </p>
1.4 art 25: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
1.1 mickey 26:
27: <p>
1.5 horacio 28: The orginal port was made for NetBSD by Eduardo Horvath and released for
1.4 art 29: the first time in January 1999.
30: The porting to OpenBSD started in August 2001 and in the end of September the
31: first binary snapshot was released. The porting was done mainly by Jason
32: Wright and Artur Grabowski and was done on both sbus and PCI machines so that
1.6 jcs 33: a decently wide range of hardware support was ready even before the system
34: could boot multiuser.
1.1 mickey 35: </p>
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37: <hr>
1.4 art 38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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40: <p>
41: Currently most of the hardware available to the developers boots multiuser and
42: supports enough of the on-board devices to be generally useable. No attempts
1.6 jcs 43: have been made for graphics console support yet, so only serial or prom
44: consoles are available. The same applies to support of more expansion hardware
45: for the PCI bus or the SBUS.
1.4 art 46: </p>
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48: <p>
1.6 jcs 49: There hasn't yet been a need for a separate mailing list for OpenBSD/sparc64,
50: so the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list is being used. To join the OpenBSD/sparc
51: mailing list, send a message with a body of "<b>subscribe sparc</b>" to <a
52: href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>.
1.4 art 53: </p>
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1.12 ! jason 55: <h4>Projects (in no particular order):</h4>
! 56:
! 57: <ul>
! 58: <li>X Window System support
! 59: <li>Resolve stability issues on Blade100
! 60: <li>Finish porting SBUS drivers from <a href="sparc.html">OpenBSD/sparc</a>
! 61: <li>Improve archiecture specific documentation
! 62: </ul>
! 63:
1.4 art 64: <hr>
65: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Where to get it:</strong></font></h3>
66:
67: <p>
1.6 jcs 68: There has not been any formal release of OpenBSD/sparc64 yet, but more-or-less
1.4 art 69: functional snapshots are made quite often and can be found at:
70: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64/">
1.6 jcs 71: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64/</a>
1.4 art 72: </p>
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74: <hr>
75: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
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77: <h4>OpenBSD/sparc64 has been tested on the following SUN UltraSPARC models:</h4>
78: <ul>
79: <li>Ultra 1
1.9 miod 80: <li>Ultra 2 (untested)
1.4 art 81: <li>Ultra 5
82: <li>Ultra 10
1.7 jason 83: <li>Ultra 30
1.10 jason 84: <li>SPARCengineUltra AX
1.11 jason 85: <li>SPARCengineUltra AXi
1.9 miod 86: <li>SUNBlade 100 (with onboard ethernet issues)
1.7 jason 87: <li>Enterprise 250
1.4 art 88: </ul>
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1.9 miod 90: <h4>The following models are not supported at the moment:</h4>
91: <ul>
92: <li>Ultra 60
93: <li>Ultra 80
1.10 jason 94: <li>SUNBlade 1000
1.9 miod 95: <li>Enterprise 450
96: <li>Enterprise 3000
97: </ul>
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1.12 ! jason 99: <h4>Supported peripherals:</h4>
! 100: <ul>
! 101: <li><strong>SCSI Host Adapters</strong>
! 102: <ul>
! 103: <li>SBUS NCR53c9x adapters (esp)
! 104: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit SunSwift Ethernet+SCSI cards (esp)
! 105: <li>SBUS Qlogic adapters (isp)
! 106: <li>PCI NCR53c8xx adapters (siop)
! 107: </ul>
! 108: <li><strong>PCI IDE Controllers (pciide)</strong>
! 109: <ul>
! 110: <li>Acer Labs M5229
! 111: <li>Command Technologies PCI0646
! 112: <li>National Semiconductor PC87415
! 113: </ul>
! 114: Other PCI IDE adapters may work, but are untested.
! 115: <li><strong>Ethernet Adapters</strong>
! 116: <ul>
! 117: <li>onboard SBUS AMD Lance Ethernet (le)
! 118: <li>SBUS AMD Lance cards (le)
! 119: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit qec+be Sun FastEthernet 1.0 cards (qec/be)
! 120: <li>SBUS Quad 10Mbit qec+qe Sun Quad Ethernet (qec/qe)
! 121: <li>onboard SBUS and PCI HME Ethernet (hme)
! 122: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit hme Ethernet cards (hme)
! 123: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit SunSwift Ethernet+SCSI cards (hme)
! 124: <li>SBUS Quad 10/100Mbit hme and qfe Quad Fast Ethernet cards (hme)
! 125: <li>PCI Fast Ethernet (hme)
! 126: <li>PCI Quad Fast Ethernet (hme)
! 127: <li>PCI GEM Ethernet (gem) [Not fully supported]
! 128: </ul>
! 129: <li><strong>Sound devices</strong>
! 130: <ul>
! 131: <li>onboard SBUS CS4231 (audiocs)
! 132: <li>onboard EBUS/PCI CS4231 (audioce)
! 133: </ul>
! 134: </ul>
! 135:
! 136: <h4>Unsupported devices:</h4>
! 137: <ul>
! 138: <li>Framebuffers (these will work as prom console output, but no X Windows support yet).
! 139: <li>Keyboards (these will work as prom console input, but no X Windows support yet).
! 140: <li>Mice (No X Windows support yet)
! 141: <li>SBUS and PCI cards other than those listed above.
! 142: </ul>
! 143:
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