Annotation of www/vax.html, Revision 1.16
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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.
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1.16 ! hugh 28: Significant changes contained in the post 2.8 snapshot:
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! 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>
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! 36: <p>
1.15 hugh 37: OpenBSD is currently known to run on these vax models:
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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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1.15 hugh 52: SCSI should be working on the following:
1.12 ericj 53: </p>
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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>
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1.12 ericj 62: <p>
63: Projects being worked on:
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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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1.15 hugh 74: Known problems:
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77: <ul>
78: <li>optimizer bugs in gcc
79: <li>intermittent lance ethernet timeouts
80: <li>some signal delivery problems
81: </ul>
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84: The current release OpenBSD/vax is 2.8; however, snapshots will be made from time to time.
1.12 ericj 85: </p>
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1.13 ericj 87: <p>
88: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainer is <a href=mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org>Brandon Creighton</a>.
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