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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>
1.22 deraadt 70: <ul>
71: <li><a href=ftp.html>Snapshots are made available from time to time.</a>
72: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64>Installation information</a>
73: </ul>
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>
1.24 miod 88: <li><strong>Floppy disk:</strong><p>
1.19 miod 89: This 1.44MB floppy image supports the following sparc64 hardware:
90: <ul>
91: <li>Ultra 1/1E
92: <li>Ultra 2
1.21 miod 93: </ul>
1.19 miod 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
1.26 miod 96: floppy lacks cdrom support and will <i>not</i> allow you to install from cdrom
97: media.<p>
1.24 miod 98: <li><strong>Miniroot:</strong><p>
1.19 miod 99: The miniroot is a complete filesystem image, to be dumped on your machines' swap
1.22 deraadt 100: partition, and booted from afterwards. Its device support is similar to the
1.19 miod 101: CD boot image.
102: </ul>
103: <p>
104: Use the method that works best for you.<br>
105: Please note that booting from floppy might not work on your machine; also,
1.26 miod 106: Ultra 1, 1E and 2 systems might require a PROM update (they usually don't if
107: they are able to boot Solaris in 64bit-mode); please refer to the
1.19 miod 108: installation notes for details.</p>
109:
110: <hr>
1.4 art 111: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
112:
113: <h4>OpenBSD/sparc64 has been tested on the following SUN UltraSPARC models:</h4>
114: <ul>
1.19 miod 115: <li>Ultra 1/1E
1.17 jason 116: <li>Ultra 2
1.4 art 117: <li>Ultra 5
118: <li>Ultra 10
1.7 jason 119: <li>Ultra 30
1.10 jason 120: <li>SPARCengineUltra AX
1.11 jason 121: <li>SPARCengineUltra AXi
1.9 miod 122: <li>SUNBlade 100 (with onboard ethernet issues)
1.7 jason 123: <li>Enterprise 250
1.23 jason 124: <li>Netra X1 <font color=#e00000>*</font>
1.4 art 125: </ul>
1.23 jason 126: <font color=#e00000>*</font> support added after 3.0.
1.4 art 127:
1.9 miod 128: <h4>The following models are not supported at the moment:</h4>
129: <ul>
130: <li>Ultra 60
131: <li>Ultra 80
1.19 miod 132: <li>Ultra 450
1.10 jason 133: <li>SUNBlade 1000
1.19 miod 134: <li>Enterprise 220R
135: <li>Enterprise 420R
1.9 miod 136: <li>Enterprise 450
137: <li>Enterprise 3000
138: </ul>
139:
1.12 jason 140: <h4>Supported peripherals:</h4>
141: <ul>
142: <li><strong>SCSI Host Adapters</strong>
143: <ul>
1.20 jason 144: <li>SBUS NCR53c9x adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=esp&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">esp</a>)
145: <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=sparc64">esp</a>)
1.14 jason 146: <li>SBUS Qlogic adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isp&sektion=4">isp</a>)
147: <li>PCI NCR53c8xx adapters (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=siop&sektion=4">siop</a>)
1.12 jason 148: </ul>
1.14 jason 149: <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 150: <ul>
151: <li>Acer Labs M5229
152: <li>Command Technologies PCI0646
153: <li>National Semiconductor PC87415
154: </ul>
155: Other PCI IDE adapters may work, but are untested.
156: <li><strong>Ethernet Adapters</strong>
157: <ul>
1.20 jason 158: <li>onboard SBUS AMD Lance Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">le</a>)
159: <li>SBUS AMD Lance cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=le&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">le</a>)
160: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit qec+be Sun FastEthernet 1.0 cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc64&query=qec&sektion=4">qec</a>/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=be&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">be</a>)
161: <li>SBUS Quad 10Mbit qec+qe Sun Quad Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=qec&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">qec</a>/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=qe&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">qe</a>)
162: <li>onboard SBUS and PCI HME Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">hme</a>)
163: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit hme Ethernet cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">hme</a>)
164: <li>SBUS 10/100Mbit SunSwift Ethernet+SCSI cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">hme</a>)
165: <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=sparc64">hme</a>)
166: <li>PCI Fast Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">hme</a>)
167: <li>PCI Quad Fast Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hme&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">hme</a>)
168: <li>PCI GEM Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">gem</a>) [Not fully supported]
1.26 miod 169: <li>PCI Davicom DM9102 Ethernet (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4">dc</a>) <font color=#e00000>*</font>
1.12 jason 170: </ul>
1.26 miod 171: <li><strong>Sound Devices</strong>
1.12 jason 172: <ul>
1.20 jason 173: <li>onboard SBUS CS4231 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audiocs&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">audiocs</a>)
174: <li>onboard EBUS/PCI CS4231 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audioce&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">audioce</a>)
1.12 jason 175: </ul>
1.26 miod 176: <li><strong>Serial Devices</strong>
1.15 jason 177: <ul>
1.20 jason 178: <li>onboard SBUS Zilog 8530 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">zs</a>)
1.31 ! jason 179: <li>onboard EBUS Infineon (Siemens) 82532 (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">sab</a>) <font color=#e00000>*</font>
1.15 jason 180: <li>onboard 16550 compatibles (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=com&sektion=4">com</a>)
1.28 jason 181: <li> SBus magma serial port cards, including: 4Sp, 8Sp, 12Sp, 16Sp, LC2+1Sp, 2+1Sp, 4+1Sp, and 8+2Sp (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=magma&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">magma</a>) <font color=#e00000>*</font>
1.29 jason 182: <li> SBus spif serial port cards (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spif&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">spif</a>) <font color=#e00000>*</font>
1.15 jason 183: </ul>
184: <li><strong>Miscellaneous Devices</strong>
185: <ul>
186: <li>EBUS beeper (beeper)
187: </ul>
1.12 jason 188: </ul>
1.26 miod 189: <font color=#e00000>*</font> support added after 3.0.
1.12 jason 190:
191: <h4>Unsupported devices:</h4>
192: <ul>
1.25 miod 193: <li>Framebuffers (these will work as prom console output, but no X Window support yet).
194: <li>Keyboards (these will work as prom console input, but no X Window support yet).
195: <li>Mice (No X Window support yet)
1.12 jason 196: <li>SBUS and PCI cards other than those listed above.
197: </ul>
198:
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