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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.
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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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1.18 hugh 40: OpenBSD runs on a wide variety of VAX hardware, but our
41: <a href="want.html#vax">inventory of systems</a>
42: is limited. We rely on your feedback to know what is supported, and what
43: needs work. After you finish installing and road testing your new system,
44: consider running "dmesg |mail dmesg@openbsd.org" as this helps us to
45: confirm what types of hardware people are using. The machines listed on
46: this page are known to be working as of the most recent snapshot.
1.17 hugh 47: </p>
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52: <p>
53: <b>Tested systems:</b>
54: </p>
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56: <ul>
57: <li>VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000
1.19 ! hugh 58: <li>VAXstation 3100/{30,40} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
! 59: <li>VAXstation 3100/{38,48} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.17 hugh 60: <li>VAXstation 3100/76 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
61: <li>VAXstation 4000/60 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.18 hugh 62: <li>MicroVAX 3100/{10,20}{,e} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
63: <li>MicroVAX 3100/80 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
64: <li>MicroVAX 3100/90 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.17 hugh 65: <li>MicroVAX 3300 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
66: <li>VAX 4000/100 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
67: <li>VAX 4000/105 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
68: <li>VAX 4000/300
69: </ul>
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73: <p>
74: <b>Projects being worked on:</b>
75: </p>
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77: <ul>
78: <li>vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
79: <li>qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
80: <li>shared libraries
81: <li>support for new systems as we obtain them
82: <li>graphics console once we find cables and a display...
83: </ul>
1.12 ericj 84:
1.17 hugh 85: <p>
86: <b>Known problems:</b>
87: </p>
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89: <ul>
90: <li>optimizer bugs in gcc
91: <li>intermittent lance ethernet timeouts
92: <li>pmap issues
93: </ul>
94: </td>
95: </tr>
96: </table>
1.15 hugh 97:
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99: The current release OpenBSD/vax is 2.8; however, snapshots will be made from time to time.
1.12 ericj 100: </p>
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1.13 ericj 102: <p>
1.18 hugh 103: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainers are <a href=mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org>Brandon Creighton</a>
104: and <a href=mailto:hugh@cvs.openbsd.org>Hugh Graham</a>.
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