Annotation of www/sun3.html, Revision 1.48
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17: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
18: <p>
19: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sun3</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 22:
1.35 ericj 23: <p>
1.45 miod 24: OpenBSD/sun3 runs on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except for the
25: 3/E flavour and the 3/50.
26: </p>
1.35 ericj 27:
1.45 miod 28: <p>
29: <strong><font color="#e00000">The OpenBSD/sun3 port has been
30: discontinued</font></strong> after the 2.9 release.
31: </p>
1.35 ericj 32:
33: <p>
1.45 miod 34: There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
35: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
36: NetBSD as well.
37: If you are interested in reviving the sun3 port, make it work and contact
38: <a href="mailto:miod@openbsd.org">Miodrag Vallat</a>.
1.35 ericj 39: </p>
1.8 kstailey 40:
1.45 miod 41: <a href="#toc"></a>
42: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3 fn 43: <p>
1.7 kstailey 44: <ul>
1.46 jufi 45: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.45 miod 46: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware list</a>
47: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
1.7 kstailey 48: </ul>
1.35 ericj 49: </p>
1.1 deraadt 50:
1.45 miod 51: <hr>
52: <a name="history"></a>
53: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
54:
55: <p>
56: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
57: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
58: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
59: sync with NetBSD.
60: </p>
61:
62: <p>
63: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
64: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
65: lost interest working on this port.
66: </p>
67:
68: <p>
69: Early 2000, Miodrag Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
70: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48 ! jmc 71: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
! 72: there was no working X server.
1.45 miod 73: </p>
74:
75: <p>
76: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
77: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
78: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
79: system to
80: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&sektion=9">uvm</a>,
81: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
82: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
83: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
84: </p>
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1.35 ericj 86: <hr>
1.45 miod 87: <a name="hardware"></a>
88: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
89:
1.35 ericj 90: <p>
1.45 miod 91: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36 miod 92: </p>
93:
94: <p>
1.45 miod 95: <ul>
96: <li>3/60, 3/60LE
97: <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
98: <li>3/110
99: <li>3/260 and 3/280
100: </ul>
101: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
102: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36 miod 103: </p>
1.11 kstailey 104:
1.45 miod 105: <p>
106: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36 miod 107: </p>
1.21 kstailey 108:
1.45 miod 109: <p>
1.26 kstailey 110: <ul>
1.45 miod 111: <li>On-board serial ports
112: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
113: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
114: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
115: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 scsi controller, currently with some limitations
1.26 kstailey 116: </ul>
1.45 miod 117: </p>
118:
119: <hr>
120: <a name="install"></a>
121: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
122: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
123: </font></h3>
1.26 kstailey 124:
1.35 ericj 125: <p>
1.45 miod 126: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release has been
127: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
128: Here are the
129: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.9/sun3/INSTALL.sun3">
130: OpenBSD/sun3 2.9 installation instructions
131: </a>.
1.35 ericj 132: </p>
133:
1.7 kstailey 134: <hr>
1.45 miod 135: <a href="plat.html">
136: <img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="Supported platforms">
1.31 kstailey 137: </a>
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1.45 miod 139: <small><a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a></small>
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1.48 ! jmc 141: <small>$OpenBSD: sun3.html,v 1.47 2003/04/13 11:28:40 jmc Exp $</small>
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