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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
1.20 hugh 22: from NetBSD's very mature port to these systems, and smaller imports still
23: occur as useful changes happen in that OS. However, we are by no means wholly
1.17 hugh 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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1.22 ! hugh 30: <b>Significant changes between 2.8 and 2.9:</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>
1.18 hugh 40: OpenBSD runs on a wide variety of VAX hardware, but our
41: <a href="want.html#vax">inventory of systems</a>
1.22 ! hugh 42: is limited. We may actually run on your hardware even if it's not listed
! 43: here. We rely on your feedback to know what is supported, and what
1.18 hugh 44: needs work. After you finish installing and road testing your new system,
1.20 hugh 45: consider running "dmesg |mail dmesg@openbsd.org" to help us determine
46: what types of hardware people are using. The machines listed on this page
1.22 ! hugh 47: are known to be working as of the most recent release.
1.17 hugh 48: </p>
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1.20 hugh 50: <table WIDTH="100%">
1.17 hugh 51: <tr VALIGN=top>
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53: <p>
54: <b>Tested systems:</b>
55: </p>
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57: <ul>
58: <li>VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000
1.19 hugh 59: <li>VAXstation 3100/{30,40} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
60: <li>VAXstation 3100/{38,48} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.17 hugh 61: <li>VAXstation 3100/76 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
62: <li>VAXstation 4000/60 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.18 hugh 63: <li>MicroVAX 3100/{10,20}{,e} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
64: <li>MicroVAX 3100/80 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
65: <li>MicroVAX 3100/90 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.17 hugh 66: <li>MicroVAX 3300 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
67: <li>VAX 4000/100 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
68: <li>VAX 4000/105 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
69: <li>VAX 4000/300
70: </ul>
71: </td>
72: <td WIDTH="50%">
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74: <p>
75: <b>Projects being worked on:</b>
76: </p>
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78: <ul>
79: <li>vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
80: <li>qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
1.22 ! hugh 81: <li>shared libraries? good idea?
1.17 hugh 82: <li>support for new systems as we obtain them
1.22 ! hugh 83: <li>graphics console support
! 84: <li>support for LCG or SPGFX framebuffers (if we can find programming info)
1.17 hugh 85: </ul>
1.12 ericj 86:
1.17 hugh 87: <p>
88: <b>Known problems:</b>
89: </p>
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91: <ul>
92: <li>optimizer bugs in gcc
1.22 ! hugh 93: <li>pmap - addressing limits
1.17 hugh 94: </ul>
95: </td>
96: </tr>
97: </table>
1.15 hugh 98:
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1.20 hugh 100: In addition to formal releases, snapshots that reflect our current work
101: are available for download from the <a href=ftp.html>ftp mirrors</a>,
102: and a mailing has been set up at
103: <a href="mailto:vax@openbsd.org"> vax@openbsd.org</a>.
104: For information on subscribing, simply send a message body of "help"
105: to <a href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>.
1.12 ericj 106: </p>
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1.13 ericj 108: <p>
1.20 hugh 109: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainers are
110: <a href="mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org">Brandon Creighton</a>
111: and <a href="mailto:hugh@cvs.openbsd.org">Hugh Graham</a>.
1.13 ericj 112: </p>
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