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1.1       deraadt    15: <h2>OpenBSD/vax</h2>
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                     18: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
1.1       deraadt    19:
1.12      ericj      20: <p>
1.17    ! hugh       21: OpenBSD/vax began in early 2000 when architecture specific code was adapted
        !            22: from NetBSD's very mature port to these systems. Smaller imports still occur
        !            23: as useful changes happen in that OS. However, we are by no means wholly
        !            24: derivative; most of the changes below have in fact been backported to NetBSD.
        !            25: The result of all this work is an OS environment that is comfortable and
        !            26: familiar to any OpenBSD user.
1.12      ericj      27: </p>
                     28:
                     29: <p>
1.17    ! hugh       30: <b>Significant changes contained in the post release snapshot:</b>
1.16      hugh       31: </p>
                     32: <ul>
                     33: <li>Support for 16 filesystems per drive. (work by hugh)
                     34: <li>Emulation of the EMODD instruction. (work by bjc)
                     35: <li>Support for KA53 (Cheetah) machines. (work by bjc & hugh)
1.17    ! hugh       36: <li>Interrupt signals no longer cause ksh subshells to core. (work by bjc)
1.16      hugh       37: </ul>
                     38:
                     39: <p>
1.17    ! hugh       40: OpenBSD runs on a wide variety of VAX hardware, but our inventory
        !            41: of systems is limited. We rely on your feedback to know what is supported,
        !            42: and what needs work. In fact, after you finish installing and road testing
        !            43: your new system, simply running "dmesg |mail dmesg@openbsd.org" helps us to
        !            44: confirm what types of hardware people are using. The machines listed on this
        !            45: page are known to be working as of the most recent snapshot.
        !            46: </p>
        !            47:
        !            48: <table COLS=2 WIDTH="100%">
        !            49: <tr VALIGN=top>
        !            50:     <td WIDTH="50%">
        !            51:        <p>
        !            52:        <b>Tested systems:</b>
        !            53:        </p>
        !            54:
        !            55:        <ul>
        !            56:        <li>VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000
        !            57:        <li>VAXstation 3100/20 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            58:        <li>VAXstation 3100/38 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            59:        <li>VAXstation 3100/76 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            60:        <li>VAXstation 4000/60 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            61:        <li>MicroVAX 3300 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            62:        <li>MicroVAX 3100/90 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            63:        <li>VAX 4000/100 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            64:        <li>VAX 4000/105 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
        !            65:        <li>VAX 4000/300
        !            66:        </ul>
        !            67:     </td>
        !            68:     <td WIDTH="50%">
        !            69:
        !            70:        <p>
        !            71:        <b>Projects being worked on:</b>
        !            72:        </p>
        !            73:
        !            74:        <ul>
        !            75:        <li>vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
        !            76:        <li>qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
        !            77:        <li>shared libraries
        !            78:         <li>support for new systems as we obtain them
        !            79:        <li>graphics console once we find cables and a display...
        !            80:        </ul>
1.12      ericj      81:
1.17    ! hugh       82:        <p>
        !            83:        <b>Known problems:</b>
        !            84:        </p>
        !            85:
        !            86:        <ul>
        !            87:        <li>optimizer bugs in gcc
        !            88:        <li>intermittent lance ethernet timeouts
        !            89:        <li>pmap issues
        !            90:        </ul>
        !            91:     </td>
        !            92: </tr>
        !            93: </table>
1.15      hugh       94:
                     95: <p>
                     96: The current release OpenBSD/vax is 2.8; however, snapshots will be made from time to time.
1.12      ericj      97: </p>
                     98:
1.13      ericj      99: <p>
                    100: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainer is <a href=mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org>Brandon Creighton</a>.
                    101: </p>
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