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1.1       deraadt    15: <h2>OpenBSD/vax</h2>
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                     18: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.12      ericj      20: <p>
1.15      hugh       21: OpenBSD/vax is currently working on expansion of the supported hardware,
1.16    ! hugh       22: graphics console support, and shared libraries.  The architecture specific
        !            23: code is largely based on the NetBSD/vax port with the end result being a
        !            24: very comfortable and familiar OpenBSD environment.
1.12      ericj      25: </p>
                     26:
                     27: <p>
1.16    ! hugh       28: Significant changes contained in the post 2.8 snapshot:
        !            29: </p>
        !            30: <ul>
        !            31: <li>Support for 16 filesystems per drive. (work by hugh)
        !            32: <li>Emulation of the EMODD instruction. (work by bjc)
        !            33: <li>Support for KA53 (Cheetah) machines. (work by bjc & hugh)
        !            34: </ul>
        !            35:
        !            36: <p>
1.15      hugh       37: OpenBSD is currently known to run on these vax models:
1.12      ericj      38: </p>
                     39:
                     40: <ul>
                     41: <li>vaxstation/microvax 2000
                     42: <li>vaxstation 3100/20
1.16    ! hugh       43: <li>vaxstation 3100/38
1.15      hugh       44: <li>vaxstation 3100/76
                     45: <li>vaxstation 4000/60
1.12      ericj      46: <li>microvax 3300
1.16    ! hugh       47: <li>vax 4000/100
1.15      hugh       48: <li>vax 4000/300
1.12      ericj      49: </ul>
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                     51: <p>
1.15      hugh       52: SCSI should be working on the following:
1.12      ericj      53: </p>
                     54:
1.15      hugh       55: <ul>
                     56: <li>microvax 3300
                     57: <li>vaxstation 4000/60
                     58: <li>vaxstation 4000/vlc?
                     59: <li>most 3100 series vaxstations and microvaxes
                     60: </ul>
                     61:
1.12      ericj      62: <p>
                     63: Projects being worked on:
                     64: </p>
                     65:
                     66: <ul>
                     67: <li>vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
                     68: <li>qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
                     69: <li>shac dssi support
1.15      hugh       70: <li>VAX 4000-10X support <a href="want.html#vax">(docs and hardware sought)</a>
1.12      ericj      71: </ul>
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                     73: <p>
1.15      hugh       74: Known problems:
                     75: </p>
                     76:
                     77: <ul>
                     78: <li>optimizer bugs in gcc
                     79: <li>intermittent lance ethernet timeouts
                     80: <li>some signal delivery problems
                     81: </ul>
                     82:
                     83: <p>
                     84: The current release OpenBSD/vax is 2.8; however, snapshots will be made from time to time.
1.12      ericj      85: </p>
                     86:
1.13      ericj      87: <p>
                     88: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainer is <a href=mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org>Brandon Creighton</a>.
                     89: </p>
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