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                      4: <title>OpenBSD/sun3</title>
1.35    ! ericj       5: <link rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
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                      7: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/sun3 page">
                      8: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,sun3">
                      9: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.35    ! ericj      10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996 by OpenBSD">
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1.1       deraadt    15: <h2>OpenBSD/sun3</h2>
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1.1       deraadt    18:
1.35    ! ericj      19: <p>
        !            20: The OpenBSD/sun3 port currently runs on all the 68020-based Sun3 computers, except the 3/E
        !            21: flavour.
        !            22:
        !            23: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>History and Status:</strong></font></h3>
        !            24:
        !            25: <p>
        !            26: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the sun3 and sun3x
        !            27: ports were still different entities. The tiny bits of OpenBSD that are
        !            28: completely specific to the Sun3 port are basically the same as their NetBSD
        !            29: counterparts.
        !            30: </p>
1.8       kstailey   31:
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1.35    ! ericj      33: <h3><font color=#0000e0>Supported Hardware:</font></h3>
        !            34: OpenBSD/sun3 runs on the following Sun-3 models:
1.7       kstailey   35: <ul>
1.35    ! ericj      36: <li> Sun-3/50
        !            37: <li> Sun-3/60, 3/60LE
        !            38: <li> Sun-3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
        !            39: <li> Sun-3/110
        !            40: <li> Sun-3/260 and 3/280
1.7       kstailey   41: </ul>
1.35    ! ericj      42: Other Sun-3 models are NOT supported, especially 68030-based ones (<a href="sun3x.html">sun3x</a>).
        !            43: </p>
1.1       deraadt    44:
1.35    ! ericj      45: <p>Supported devices:
        !            46: <ul>
        !            47: <li> On-board serial ports
        !            48: <li> Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
        !            49: <li> On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
        !            50: <li> On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
        !            51: <li> On-board or VME sun-3 scsi controller, currently with some limitations
        !            52: <li> VME xylogics cards are recognized but currently not working
        !            53: </ul>
        !            54: The sun-2 scsi controller is not supported yet.
1.11      kstailey   55:
1.35    ! ericj      56: <hr>
        !            57: <p>
        !            58: There is no formal OpenBSD/sun3 release yet.
        !            59: Full snapshots, including userland, kernel, diskless and ufs bootstrap loaders
        !            60: are available.
        !            61: </p>
1.17      kstailey   62:
1.35    ! ericj      63: <p>
        !            64: The diskless configuration is prone to instability.  If many processes
1.34      ericj      65: coredump during multi-user startup, hit &lt;L1-A&gt; and from the ``&gt;''
1.28      todd       66: prompt use ``b le()bsd'' to reboot again.  It usually works on the second
1.35    ! ericj      67: try. Alternatively, you can boot single-user ``b le()bsd -s'', and exit
        !            68: single-user mode as soon as it appears with control-D.
        !            69: This behaviour doesn't appear when running from a local harddisk.
1.11      kstailey   70:
1.31      kstailey   71: <p>You can use <a href="anoncvs.html">cvs</a> to get The X Window System.
1.35    ! ericj      72: Kenneth Stailey had written patches for OpenBSD/sun3, which should have been
        !            73: intergrated into the mainstream XFree86 sources. However, X has not been tested
        !            74: on OpenBSD/sun3 for quite some time.
1.21      kstailey   75:
1.35    ! ericj      76: <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Projects being worked on (in no particular order):</strong></font></h3>
1.26      kstailey   77: <ul>
1.27      kstailey   78: <li>"call up" devices (/dev/cua*).
1.35    ! ericj      79: <li>sun-2 scsi (sc) driver.
        !            80: <li>migrate the port from the VM memory system to UVM (in progress).
        !            81: <li>rewrite the boot loader and installation procedures to share as much code
        !            82: as possible with the sparc port.
1.26      kstailey   83: </ul>
                     84:
1.35    ! ericj      85: <p>
        !            86: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD is maintained by Miodrag Vallat,
        !            87: <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">miod@openbsd.org</a>.
        !            88: </p>
        !            89:
1.7       kstailey   90: <hr>
1.31      kstailey   91: <a href="plat.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD>
                     92: </a>
                     93: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.32      kstailey   96:
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