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17: <p>
18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sun3</font></h2>
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1.3 fn 20: <hr>
1.1 deraadt 21:
1.35 ericj 22: <p>
1.54 miod 23: OpenBSD/sun3 used to run on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except
24: for the 3/E flavour and the 3/50.
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1.35 ericj 26:
1.45 miod 27: <p>
1.56 ! deraadt 28: <strong>The OpenBSD/sun3 port was discontinued after the 2.9 release.</strong>
1.45 miod 29: </p>
1.35 ericj 30:
31: <p>
1.45 miod 32: There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
33: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
34: NetBSD as well.
1.35 ericj 35: </p>
1.8 kstailey 36:
1.53 nick 37: <a name="toc"></a>
1.45 miod 38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3 fn 39: <p>
1.7 kstailey 40: <ul>
1.46 jufi 41: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.49 nick 42: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.45 miod 43: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
1.7 kstailey 44: </ul>
1.35 ericj 45: </p>
1.1 deraadt 46:
1.45 miod 47: <hr>
48: <a name="history"></a>
49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
50:
51: <p>
52: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
53: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
54: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
55: sync with NetBSD.
56: </p>
57:
58: <p>
59: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
60: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
61: lost interest working on this port.
62: </p>
63:
64: <p>
1.50 miod 65: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45 miod 66: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48 jmc 67: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
68: there was no working X server.
1.45 miod 69: </p>
70:
71: <p>
72: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
73: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
74: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
75: system to
76: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&sektion=9">uvm</a>,
77: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
78: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
79: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
80: </p>
1.11 kstailey 81:
1.35 ericj 82: <hr>
1.45 miod 83: <a name="hardware"></a>
84: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
85:
1.35 ericj 86: <p>
1.45 miod 87: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36 miod 88: </p>
89:
90: <p>
1.45 miod 91: <ul>
92: <li>3/60, 3/60LE
93: <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
94: <li>3/110
95: <li>3/260 and 3/280
96: </ul>
97: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
98: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36 miod 99: </p>
1.11 kstailey 100:
1.45 miod 101: <p>
102: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36 miod 103: </p>
1.21 kstailey 104:
1.45 miod 105: <p>
1.26 kstailey 106: <ul>
1.45 miod 107: <li>On-board serial ports
108: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
109: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
110: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49 nick 111: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26 kstailey 112: </ul>
1.45 miod 113: </p>
114:
115: <hr>
116: <a name="install"></a>
117: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
118: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
119: </font></h3>
1.26 kstailey 120:
1.35 ericj 121: <p>
1.52 jaredy 122: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45 miod 123: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.35 ericj 124: </p>
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