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1.5       horacio    10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996-2001 by OpenBSD.">
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                     15: <h2>OpenBSD/sparc64</h2>
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                     19: <p>
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
1.15      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>
                     36:
                     37: <hr>
1.4       art        38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
                     39:
                     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>
                     47:
                     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>
                     54:
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>
1.13      jason      61:  <li>Improve architecture specific documentation
1.12      jason      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>
                     73:
                     74: <hr>
                     75: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     76:
                     77: <h4>OpenBSD/sparc64 has been tested on the following SUN UltraSPARC models:</h4>
                     78: <ul>
                     79:  <li>Ultra 1
1.17    ! jason      80:  <li>Ultra 2
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>
                     89:
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>
                     98:
1.12      jason      99: <h4>Supported peripherals:</h4>
                    100: <ul>
                    101:  <li><strong>SCSI Host Adapters</strong>
                    102:   <ul>
1.14      jason     103:    <li>SBUS NCR53c9x adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=esp&sektion=4&arch=sparc">esp</a>)
1.17    ! jason     104:    <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit SunSwift Ethernet+SCSI cards, aka HME + FAS366 cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=esp&sektion=4&arch=sparc">esp</a>)
1.14      jason     105:    <li>SBUS Qlogic adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isp&sektion=4">isp</a>)
                    106:    <li>PCI NCR53c8xx adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=siop&sektion=4">siop</a>)
1.12      jason     107:   </ul>
1.14      jason     108:  <li><strong>PCI IDE Controllers (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide</a>)</strong>
1.12      jason     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>
1.14      jason     117:    <li>onboard SBUS AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=sparc">le</a>)
                    118:    <li>SBUS AMD Lance cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=sparc">le</a>)
                    119:    <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit qec+be Sun FastEthernet 1.0 cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&query=qec&sektion=4">qec</a>/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=be&sektion=4&arch=sparc">be</a>)
                    120:    <li>SBUS Quad 10Mbit qec+qe Sun Quad Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=qec&sektion=4&arch=sparc">qec</a>/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=qe&sektion=4&arch=sparc">qe</a>)
1.15      jason     121:    <li>onboard SBUS and PCI HME Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
                    122:    <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit hme Ethernet cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
                    123:    <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit SunSwift Ethernet+SCSI cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
                    124:    <li>SBUS Quad 10/100Mbit hme and qfe Quad Fast Ethernet cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
                    125:    <li>PCI Fast Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
                    126:    <li>PCI Quad Fast Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
1.12      jason     127:    <li>PCI GEM Ethernet (gem) [Not fully supported]
                    128:   </ul>
                    129:  <li><strong>Sound devices</strong>
                    130:   <ul>
1.14      jason     131:    <li>onboard SBUS CS4231 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audiocs&sektion=4&arch=sparc">audiocs</a>)
1.12      jason     132:    <li>onboard EBUS/PCI CS4231 (audioce)
                    133:   </ul>
1.16      jason     134:  <li><strong>Serial devices</strong>
1.15      jason     135:   <ul>
                    136:    <li>onboard SBUS Zilog 8530 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=sparc">zs</a>)
                    137:    <li>onboard 16550 compatibles (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=com&sektion=4">com</a>)
                    138:   </ul>
                    139:  <li><strong>Miscellaneous Devices</strong>
                    140:   <ul>
                    141:    <li>EBUS beeper (beeper)
                    142:   </ul>
1.12      jason     143: </ul>
                    144:
                    145: <h4>Unsupported devices:</h4>
                    146: <ul>
                    147:  <li>Framebuffers (these will work as prom console output, but no X Windows support yet).
                    148:  <li>Keyboards (these will work as prom console input, but no X Windows support yet).
                    149:  <li>Mice (No X Windows support yet)
                    150:  <li>SBUS and PCI cards other than those listed above.
                    151: </ul>
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