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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
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>
                     28:
                     29: <p>
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>
                     38:
                     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>
                     49:
1.20      hugh       50: <table WIDTH="100%">
1.17      hugh       51: <tr VALIGN=top>
                     52:     <td WIDTH="50%">
                     53:        <p>
                     54:        <b>Tested systems:</b>
                     55:        </p>
                     56:
                     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>)
1.24    ! hugh       63:        <li>VAXstation 4000/VLC (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.18      hugh       64:        <li>MicroVAX 3100/{10,20}{,e} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
                     65:        <li>MicroVAX 3100/80 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
                     66:        <li>MicroVAX 3100/90 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.23      hugh       67:        <li>MicroVAX 3300
1.17      hugh       68:        <li>VAX 4000/100 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
                     69:        <li>VAX 4000/105 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
                     70:        <li>VAX 4000/300
                     71:        </ul>
                     72:     </td>
                     73:     <td WIDTH="50%">
                     74:
                     75:        <p>
                     76:        <b>Projects being worked on:</b>
                     77:        </p>
                     78:
                     79:        <ul>
                     80:        <li>vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
                     81:        <li>qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
1.22      hugh       82:        <li>shared libraries? good idea?
1.17      hugh       83:         <li>support for new systems as we obtain them
1.22      hugh       84:        <li>graphics console support
                     85:        <li>support for LCG or SPGFX framebuffers (if we can find programming info)
1.17      hugh       86:        </ul>
1.12      ericj      87:
1.17      hugh       88:        <p>
                     89:        <b>Known problems:</b>
                     90:        </p>
                     91:
                     92:        <ul>
                     93:        <li>optimizer bugs in gcc
1.22      hugh       94:        <li>pmap - addressing limits
1.17      hugh       95:        </ul>
                     96:     </td>
                     97: </tr>
                     98: </table>
1.15      hugh       99:
                    100: <p>
1.20      hugh      101: In addition to formal releases, snapshots that reflect our current work
                    102: are available for download from the <a href=ftp.html>ftp mirrors</a>,
                    103: and a mailing has been set up at
                    104: <a href="mailto:vax@openbsd.org"> vax@openbsd.org</a>.
                    105: For information on subscribing, simply send a message body of "help"
                    106: to <a href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>.
1.12      ericj     107: </p>
                    108:
1.13      ericj     109: <p>
1.20      hugh      110: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainers are
                    111: <a href="mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org">Brandon Creighton</a>
                    112: and <a href="mailto:hugh@cvs.openbsd.org">Hugh Graham</a>.
1.13      ericj     113: </p>
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