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                     14: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
                     15: <p>
                     16: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sun3</font></h2>
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1.1       deraadt    19:
1.35      ericj      20: <p>
1.54      miod       21: OpenBSD/sun3 used to run on the Motorola 68020-based Sun3 computers, except
                     22: for the 3/E flavour and the 3/50.
1.45      miod       23: </p>
1.35      ericj      24:
1.45      miod       25: <p>
1.56      deraadt    26: <strong>The OpenBSD/sun3 port was discontinued after the 2.9 release.</strong>
1.45      miod       27: </p>
1.35      ericj      28:
                     29: <p>
1.45      miod       30: There is currently no one working on bringing this port back to life.
                     31: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
                     32: NetBSD as well.
1.35      ericj      33: </p>
1.8       kstailey   34:
1.53      nick       35: <a name="toc"></a>
1.45      miod       36: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3       fn         37: <p>
1.7       kstailey   38: <ul>
1.46      jufi       39:   <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.49      nick       40:   <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.45      miod       41:   <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
1.7       kstailey   42: </ul>
1.35      ericj      43: </p>
1.1       deraadt    44:
1.45      miod       45: <hr>
                     46: <a name="history"></a>
                     47: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
                     48:
                     49: <p>
                     50: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
                     51: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
                     52: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
                     53: sync with NetBSD.
                     54: </p>
                     55:
                     56: <p>
                     57: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
                     58: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
                     59: lost interest working on this port.
                     60: </p>
                     61:
                     62: <p>
1.50      miod       63: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45      miod       64: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48      jmc        65: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
                     66: there was no working X server.
1.45      miod       67: </p>
                     68:
                     69: <p>
                     70: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
                     71: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
                     72: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
                     73: system to
                     74: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&amp;sektion=9">uvm</a>,
                     75: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
                     76: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
                     77: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
                     78: </p>
1.11      kstailey   79:
1.35      ericj      80: <hr>
1.45      miod       81: <a name="hardware"></a>
                     82: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
                     83:
1.35      ericj      84: <p>
1.45      miod       85: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36      miod       86: </p>
                     87:
                     88: <p>
1.45      miod       89: <ul>
                     90:   <li>3/60, 3/60LE
                     91:   <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
                     92:   <li>3/110
                     93:   <li>3/260 and 3/280
                     94: </ul>
                     95: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
                     96: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36      miod       97: </p>
1.11      kstailey   98:
1.45      miod       99: <p>
                    100: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36      miod      101: </p>
1.21      kstailey  102:
1.45      miod      103: <p>
1.26      kstailey  104: <ul>
1.45      miod      105: <li>On-board serial ports
                    106: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
                    107: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
                    108: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49      nick      109: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26      kstailey  110: </ul>
1.45      miod      111: </p>
                    112:
                    113: <hr>
                    114: <a name="install"></a>
                    115: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                    116: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
                    117: </font></h3>
1.26      kstailey  118:
1.35      ericj     119: <p>
1.52      jaredy    120: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45      miod      121: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.35      ericj     122: </p>
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