Annotation of www/sun3.html, Revision 1.59
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6: <title>OpenBSD/sun3</title>
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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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1.3 fn 18: <hr>
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: The source code is still available in the CVS Attic, and code can be found in
31: NetBSD as well.
1.35 ericj 32: </p>
1.8 kstailey 33:
1.53 nick 34: <a name="toc"></a>
1.45 miod 35: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
1.3 fn 36: <p>
1.7 kstailey 37: <ul>
1.46 jufi 38: <li><a href="#history">History of the port</a>
1.49 nick 39: <li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a>
1.45 miod 40: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3</a>
1.7 kstailey 41: </ul>
1.35 ericj 42: </p>
1.1 deraadt 43:
1.45 miod 44: <hr>
45: <a name="history"></a>
46: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
47:
48: <p>
49: The Sun3 port of OpenBSD was derived from the NetBSD/sun3 port, when the
50: sun3 and sun3x ports were still different entities. Noone showed much
51: interest in OpenBSD/sun3 for a while, although the code was mostly kept in
52: sync with NetBSD.
53: </p>
54:
55: <p>
56: Eventually, Kenneth Stailey started working on the port, but since he was
57: living in the USA, he could not export a release he would have built, so he
58: lost interest working on this port.
59: </p>
60:
61: <p>
1.50 miod 62: Early 2000, Miod Vallat attempted to bring the port back in shape, making
1.45 miod 63: the code compile again, and devising completely new installation media. The
1.48 jmc 64: port even shipped with complete X Window System client and utilities, although
65: there was no working X server.
1.45 miod 66: </p>
67:
68: <p>
69: The port lived for a few releases, but unfortunately hardware problems and
70: lack of time conspired to prevent catching up with NetBSD on code, and the
71: sun3 code was not ready for the switch from the old Mach virtual memory
72: system to
73: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&sektion=9">uvm</a>,
74: and missed the 3.0 release, hoping that the code would be fixed in time
75: for the 3.1 release. Unfortunately, this has not been the case, and eventually
76: it was decided to remove the code from the tree.
77: </p>
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1.35 ericj 79: <hr>
1.45 miod 80: <a name="hardware"></a>
81: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></font></h3>
82:
1.35 ericj 83: <p>
1.45 miod 84: <h4>Supported models</h4>
1.36 miod 85: </p>
86:
87: <p>
1.45 miod 88: <ul>
89: <li>3/60, 3/60LE
90: <li>3/75, 3/140, 3/150, 3/160 and 3/180
91: <li>3/110
92: <li>3/260 and 3/280
93: </ul>
94: OpenBSD will not run on 3/160 family machines with only 2MB of memory,
95: and very hardly on 4MB machines whichever the model is.
1.36 miod 96: </p>
1.11 kstailey 97:
1.45 miod 98: <p>
99: <h4>Supported peripherals</h4>
1.36 miod 100: </p>
1.21 kstailey 101:
1.45 miod 102: <p>
1.26 kstailey 103: <ul>
1.45 miod 104: <li>On-board serial ports
105: <li>Sun type 3 keyboard and mouse
106: <li>On-board or VME video (bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour)
107: <li>On-board or VME ethernet (intel, lance)
1.49 nick 108: <li>On-board or VME sun-3 SCSI controller, currently with some limitations
1.26 kstailey 109: </ul>
1.45 miod 110: </p>
111:
112: <hr>
113: <a name="install"></a>
114: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
115: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/sun3:</strong>
116: </font></h3>
1.26 kstailey 117:
1.35 ericj 118: <p>
1.52 jaredy 119: The last supported OpenBSD/sun3 release was
1.45 miod 120: <a href="29.html">OpenBSD 2.9</a>.
1.35 ericj 121: </p>
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