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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
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>
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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,
1.18 miod 50: so the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list is being used.
51: To join the OpenBSD/sparc mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
52: sparc"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>.
53: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
54: subscribing.
1.4 art 55: </p>
56:
1.12 jason 57: <h4>Projects (in no particular order):</h4>
58:
59: <ul>
60: <li>X Window System support
61: <li>Resolve stability issues on Blade100
62: <li>Finish porting SBUS drivers from <a href="sparc.html">OpenBSD/sparc</a>
1.13 jason 63: <li>Improve architecture specific documentation
1.12 jason 64: </ul>
65:
1.4 art 66: <hr>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Where to get it:</strong></font></h3>
68:
69: <p>
1.6 jcs 70: There has not been any formal release of OpenBSD/sparc64 yet, but more-or-less
1.4 art 71: functional snapshots are made quite often and can be found at:
72: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64/">
1.6 jcs 73: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64/</a>
1.4 art 74: </p>
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76: <hr>
1.19 ! miod 77: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Install media:</strong></font></h3>
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! 79: <p>
! 80: A number of install options exist:
! 81: <ul>
! 82: <li><strong>CD boot:</strong><p>
! 83: Booting off the CD provides a small ffs filesystem with a kernel containing
! 84: drivers for the most popular devices found on UltraSPARC hardware.<br>
! 85: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
! 86: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">
! 87: RAMDISK</a> config file.<p>
! 88: <li><strong>Floppy A:</strong><p>
! 89: This 1.44MB floppy image supports the following sparc64 hardware:
! 90: <ul>
! 91: <li>Ultra 1/1E
! 92: <li>Ultra 2
! 93: </ul><br>
! 94: It contains support for the on-board devices found on these machines, however
! 95: due to lack of place there are only a few other drivers. In particular, this
! 96: floppy lacks cdrom support and won't allow you to install from cdrom media.<p>
! 97: <li><strong>Floppy B:</strong><p>
! 98: This 1.44MB floppy image supports the following sparc64 hardware:
! 99: <ul>
! 100: <li>Ultra 5
! 101: <li>Ultra 10
! 102: </ul>
! 103: It contains support for the on-board devices found on these machines, however
! 104: due to lack of place there are only a few other drivers. In particular, this
! 105: floppy lacks cdrom support and won't allow you to install from cdrom media.<p>
! 106: <li><strong>Miniroot</strong><p>
! 107: The miniroot is a complete filesystem image, to be dumped on your machines' swap
! 108: partition, and booted from it afterwards. Its device support is similar to the
! 109: CD boot image.
! 110: </ul>
! 111: <p>
! 112: Use the method that works best for you.<br>
! 113: Please note that booting from floppy might not work on your machine; also,
! 114: Ultra 1, 1E and 2 systems might require a PROM update; please refer to the
! 115: installation notes for details.</p>
! 116:
! 117: <hr>
1.4 art 118: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
119:
120: <h4>OpenBSD/sparc64 has been tested on the following SUN UltraSPARC models:</h4>
121: <ul>
1.19 ! miod 122: <li>Ultra 1/1E
1.17 jason 123: <li>Ultra 2
1.4 art 124: <li>Ultra 5
125: <li>Ultra 10
1.7 jason 126: <li>Ultra 30
1.10 jason 127: <li>SPARCengineUltra AX
1.11 jason 128: <li>SPARCengineUltra AXi
1.9 miod 129: <li>SUNBlade 100 (with onboard ethernet issues)
1.7 jason 130: <li>Enterprise 250
1.4 art 131: </ul>
132:
1.9 miod 133: <h4>The following models are not supported at the moment:</h4>
134: <ul>
135: <li>Ultra 60
136: <li>Ultra 80
1.19 ! miod 137: <li>Ultra 450
1.10 jason 138: <li>SUNBlade 1000
1.19 ! miod 139: <li>Enterprise 220R
! 140: <li>Enterprise 420R
1.9 miod 141: <li>Enterprise 450
142: <li>Enterprise 3000
143: </ul>
144:
1.12 jason 145: <h4>Supported peripherals:</h4>
146: <ul>
147: <li><strong>SCSI Host Adapters</strong>
148: <ul>
1.14 jason 149: <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 150: <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 151: <li>SBUS Qlogic adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isp&sektion=4">isp</a>)
152: <li>PCI NCR53c8xx adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=siop&sektion=4">siop</a>)
1.12 jason 153: </ul>
1.14 jason 154: <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 155: <ul>
156: <li>Acer Labs M5229
157: <li>Command Technologies PCI0646
158: <li>National Semiconductor PC87415
159: </ul>
160: Other PCI IDE adapters may work, but are untested.
161: <li><strong>Ethernet Adapters</strong>
162: <ul>
1.14 jason 163: <li>onboard SBUS AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=sparc">le</a>)
164: <li>SBUS AMD Lance cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=sparc">le</a>)
165: <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>)
166: <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 167: <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>)
168: <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>)
169: <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>)
170: <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>)
171: <li>PCI Fast Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc">hme</a>)
172: <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 173: <li>PCI GEM Ethernet (gem) [Not fully supported]
174: </ul>
175: <li><strong>Sound devices</strong>
176: <ul>
1.14 jason 177: <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 178: <li>onboard EBUS/PCI CS4231 (audioce)
179: </ul>
1.16 jason 180: <li><strong>Serial devices</strong>
1.15 jason 181: <ul>
182: <li>onboard SBUS Zilog 8530 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=sparc">zs</a>)
183: <li>onboard 16550 compatibles (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=com&sektion=4">com</a>)
184: </ul>
185: <li><strong>Miscellaneous Devices</strong>
186: <ul>
187: <li>EBUS beeper (beeper)
188: </ul>
1.12 jason 189: </ul>
190:
191: <h4>Unsupported devices:</h4>
192: <ul>
193: <li>Framebuffers (these will work as prom console output, but no X Windows support yet).
194: <li>Keyboards (these will work as prom console input, but no X Windows support yet).
195: <li>Mice (No X Windows support yet)
196: <li>SBUS and PCI cards other than those listed above.
197: </ul>
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