Annotation of www/sun3.html, Revision 1.57
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6: <title>OpenBSD/sun3</title>
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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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1.3 fn 21: <hr>
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>
1.56 deraadt 29: <strong>The OpenBSD/sun3 port was discontinued after the 2.9 release.</strong>
1.45 miod 30: </p>
1.35 ericj 31:
32: <p>
1.45 miod 33: There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
34: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
35: NetBSD as well.
1.35 ericj 36: </p>
1.8 kstailey 37:
1.53 nick 38: <a name="toc"></a>
1.45 miod 39: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3 fn 40: <p>
1.7 kstailey 41: <ul>
1.46 jufi 42: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.49 nick 43: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.45 miod 44: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
1.7 kstailey 45: </ul>
1.35 ericj 46: </p>
1.1 deraadt 47:
1.45 miod 48: <hr>
49: <a name="history"></a>
50: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
51:
52: <p>
53: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
54: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
55: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
56: sync with NetBSD.
57: </p>
58:
59: <p>
60: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
61: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
62: lost interest working on this port.
63: </p>
64:
65: <p>
1.50 miod 66: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45 miod 67: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48 jmc 68: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
69: there was no working X server.
1.45 miod 70: </p>
71:
72: <p>
73: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
74: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
75: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
76: system to
77: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&sektion=9">uvm</a>,
78: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
79: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
80: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
81: </p>
1.11 kstailey 82:
1.35 ericj 83: <hr>
1.45 miod 84: <a name="hardware"></a>
85: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
86:
1.35 ericj 87: <p>
1.45 miod 88: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36 miod 89: </p>
90:
91: <p>
1.45 miod 92: <ul>
93: <li>3/60, 3/60LE
94: <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
95: <li>3/110
96: <li>3/260 and 3/280
97: </ul>
98: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
99: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36 miod 100: </p>
1.11 kstailey 101:
1.45 miod 102: <p>
103: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36 miod 104: </p>
1.21 kstailey 105:
1.45 miod 106: <p>
1.26 kstailey 107: <ul>
1.45 miod 108: <li>On-board serial ports
109: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
110: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
111: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49 nick 112: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26 kstailey 113: </ul>
1.45 miod 114: </p>
115:
116: <hr>
117: <a name="install"></a>
118: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
119: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
120: </font></h3>
1.26 kstailey 121:
1.35 ericj 122: <p>
1.52 jaredy 123: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45 miod 124: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.35 ericj 125: </p>
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