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   <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sun3</font></h2>
   
 <h2>OpenBSD/sun3</h2>  
   
 <hr>  <hr>
   
 <p>  <p>
 The OpenBSD/sun3 port currently runs on all the 68020-based Sun3 computers, except the 3/E  OpenBSD/sun3 runs on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except for the
 flavour.  3/E flavour and the 3/50.
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 <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History and Status:</strong></font></h3>  <p>
   <strong><font color="#e00000">The OpenBSD/sun3 port has been
   discontinued</font></strong> after the 2.9 release.
   </p>
   
 <p>  <p>
 The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the sun3 and sun3x  There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
 ports were still different entities. The tiny bits of OpenBSD that are  The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
 completely specific to the Sun3 port are basically the same as their NetBSD  NetBSD as well.
 counterparts.  If you are interested in reviving the sun3 port, make it work and contact
   <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miodrag Vallat</a>.
 </p>  </p>
   
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   <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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 <h3><font color=#0000e0>Supported Hardware:</font></h3>  
 OpenBSD/sun3 runs on the following Sun3 models:  
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li> Sun-3/50    <li><a href="#history">Past history of the port</a>
 <li> Sun-3/60, 3/60LE    <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware list</a>
 <li> Sun-3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180    <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
 <li> Sun-3/110  
 <li> Sun-3/260 and 3/280  
 </ul>  </ul>
 Other Sun3 models are NOT supported, especially 68030-based ones (<a href="sun3x.html">sun3x</a>).  
 OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 machines with only 2Mb of memory, and very  
 hardly on 4Mb machines.  
 </p>  </p>
   
 <p>Supported devices:  <hr>
 <ul>  <a name="history"></a>
 <li> On-board serial ports  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
 <li> Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse  
 <li> On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)  
 <li> On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)  
 <li> On-board or VME sun-3 scsi controller, currently with some limitations  
 <li> VME Xylogics cards are recognized but currently not working  
 </ul>  
 The sun-2 scsi controller is not supported yet.  
   
   <p>
   The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
   sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
   interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
   sync with NetBSD.
   </p>
   
   <p>
   Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
   living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
   lost interest working on this port.
   </p>
   
   <p>
   Early 2000, Miodrag Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
   the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
   port even shipped with complete X-Window client and utilities, althouh there
   was no working X server.
   </p>
   
   <p>
   The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
   lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
   sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
   system to
   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&amp;sektion=9">uvm</a>,
   and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
   for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
   it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
   </p>
   
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   <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
   
 <p>  <p>
 The complete OpenBSD/sun3 release is <a href=ftp.html>available via  <h4>Supported models</h4>
 ftp</a>; snapshots are made available on an irregular basis.<br>  
 You should read the  
 <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.9/sun3/INSTALL.sun3>installation  
 notes</a> for this release before trying to install OpenBSD/sun3.  
 </p>  </p>
   
 <p>  <p>
 The first boot of the system will take some time due to the generation of a DSA  <ul>
 key for ssh. This can take up to 15 minutes on a 3/160, but times can vary    <li>3/60, 3/60LE
 greatly depending on your machine. This is a one time process and is nothing to    <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
 worry about.    <li>3/110
     <li>3/260 and 3/280
   </ul>
   OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
   and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
 </p>  </p>
   
 <p>You can use <a href="anoncvs.html">cvs</a> to get The X Window System.  <p>
 Kenneth Stailey had written patches for OpenBSD/sun3, which should have been  <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
 integrated into the mainstream XFree86 sources. X clients and libraries are  
 available, but there is no X server yet.  
 </p>  </p>
   
 <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Projects being worked on (in no particular order):</strong></font></h3>  <p>
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li>"call up" devices (/dev/cua*).  <li>On-board serial ports
 <li>sun-2 scsi (sc) driver.  <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
 <li>migrate the port from the VM memory system to UVM (in progress).  <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
 <li>rewrite the boot loader and installation procedures to share as much code  <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
 as possible with the sparc port.  <li>On-board or VME sun-3 scsi controller, currently with some limitations
 </ul>  </ul>
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   <h3><font color="#0000e0">
   <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
   </font></h3>
   
 <p>  <p>
 The Sun3 port of OpenBSD is maintained by Miodrag Vallat,  The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release has been
 <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>.  <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
   Here are the
   <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.9/sun3/INSTALL.sun3">
   OpenBSD/sun3 2.9 installation instructions
   </a>.
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