Annotation of www/vax.html, Revision 1.17
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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>
1.17 ! 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>
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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>
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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>
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! 48: <table COLS=2 WIDTH="100%">
! 49: <tr VALIGN=top>
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! 51: <p>
! 52: <b>Tested systems:</b>
! 53: </p>
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! 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>
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! 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>
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96: The current release OpenBSD/vax is 2.8; however, snapshots will be made from time to time.
1.12 ericj 97: </p>
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1.13 ericj 99: <p>
100: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainer is <a href=mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org>Brandon Creighton</a>.
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