Annotation of www/sun3.html, Revision 1.54
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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>
1.54 ! miod 24: OpenBSD/sun3 used to run on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except
! 25: for the 3/E flavour and the 3/50.
1.45 miod 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.
1.35 ericj 37: </p>
1.8 kstailey 38:
1.53 nick 39: <a name="toc"></a>
1.45 miod 40: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3 fn 41: <p>
1.7 kstailey 42: <ul>
1.46 jufi 43: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.49 nick 44: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.45 miod 45: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
1.7 kstailey 46: </ul>
1.35 ericj 47: </p>
1.1 deraadt 48:
1.45 miod 49: <hr>
50: <a name="history"></a>
51: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
52:
53: <p>
54: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
55: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
56: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
57: sync with NetBSD.
58: </p>
59:
60: <p>
61: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
62: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
63: lost interest working on this port.
64: </p>
65:
66: <p>
1.50 miod 67: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45 miod 68: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48 jmc 69: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
70: there was no working X server.
1.45 miod 71: </p>
72:
73: <p>
74: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
75: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
76: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
77: system to
78: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&sektion=9">uvm</a>,
79: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
80: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
81: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
82: </p>
1.11 kstailey 83:
1.35 ericj 84: <hr>
1.45 miod 85: <a name="hardware"></a>
86: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
87:
1.35 ericj 88: <p>
1.45 miod 89: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36 miod 90: </p>
91:
92: <p>
1.45 miod 93: <ul>
94: <li>3/60, 3/60LE
95: <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
96: <li>3/110
97: <li>3/260 and 3/280
98: </ul>
99: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
100: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36 miod 101: </p>
1.11 kstailey 102:
1.45 miod 103: <p>
104: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36 miod 105: </p>
1.21 kstailey 106:
1.45 miod 107: <p>
1.26 kstailey 108: <ul>
1.45 miod 109: <li>On-board serial ports
110: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
111: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
112: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49 nick 113: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26 kstailey 114: </ul>
1.45 miod 115: </p>
116:
117: <hr>
118: <a name="install"></a>
119: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
120: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
121: </font></h3>
1.26 kstailey 122:
1.35 ericj 123: <p>
1.52 jaredy 124: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45 miod 125: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.35 ericj 126: </p>
127:
1.7 kstailey 128: <hr>
1.45 miod 129: <a href="plat.html">
130: <img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="Supported platforms">
1.31 kstailey 131: </a>
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