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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
1.25 hugh 22: from NetBSD's very mature port to these systems. Smaller imports still
23: occur as useful changes happen in that OS, but not wholly derivative, changes
24: in our port are often backported to NetBSD. The result of all this work is
25: an Operating System that is stable and familiar to any OpenBSD user.
1.12 ericj 26: </p>
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28: <p>
1.25 hugh 29: <b>Significant changes between 2.9 and 3.0:</b>
30: </p>
31: <ul>
32: <li>Support for a couple more machines added.
33: <li>Event counters attached to most devices. (from NetBSD)
34: <li>More addressing modes added to the emulation system. (work by Jim Uhl)
35: </ul>
36:
37: <p>
1.22 hugh 38: <b>Significant changes between 2.8 and 2.9:</b>
1.16 hugh 39: </p>
40: <ul>
41: <li>Support for 16 filesystems per drive. (work by hugh)
42: <li>Emulation of the EMODD instruction. (work by bjc)
43: <li>Support for KA53 (Cheetah) machines. (work by bjc & hugh)
1.17 hugh 44: <li>Interrupt signals no longer cause ksh subshells to core. (work by bjc)
1.16 hugh 45: </ul>
46:
47: <p>
1.18 hugh 48: OpenBSD runs on a wide variety of VAX hardware, but our
49: <a href="want.html#vax">inventory of systems</a>
1.25 hugh 50: is limited. OpenBSD/vax may actually run on your hardware even if it's not
51: listed here, so we rely on your testing and feedback to keep this list up to
52: date. After you finish installing and road testing your new system, consider
53: running "dmesg |mail dmesg@openbsd.org" to help us determine what types of
54: hardware people are using.
1.17 hugh 55: </p>
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1.20 hugh 57: <table WIDTH="100%">
1.17 hugh 58: <tr VALIGN=top>
59: <td WIDTH="50%">
60: <p>
61: <b>Tested systems:</b>
62: </p>
63:
64: <ul>
65: <li>VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000
1.19 hugh 66: <li>VAXstation 3100/{30,40} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
67: <li>VAXstation 3100/{38,48} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.17 hugh 68: <li>VAXstation 3100/76 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
69: <li>VAXstation 4000/60 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.24 hugh 70: <li>VAXstation 4000/VLC (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.18 hugh 71: <li>MicroVAX 3100/{10,20}{,e} (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
72: <li>MicroVAX 3100/80 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
73: <li>MicroVAX 3100/90 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
1.23 hugh 74: <li>MicroVAX 3300
1.17 hugh 75: <li>VAX 4000/100 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
76: <li>VAX 4000/105 (<font color="#009900">SCSI</font>)
77: <li>VAX 4000/300
1.27 ! hugh 78: <li>VAX 4000/{4,5,6}00{,A}
1.17 hugh 79: </ul>
80: </td>
1.25 hugh 81:
1.17 hugh 82: <td WIDTH="50%">
83: <p>
84: <b>Projects being worked on:</b>
85: </p>
86:
87: <ul>
88: <li>vaxstation 2000's hdc9224 (floppy/mfm hard disk controller)
89: <li>qbus tk50/tk70 tape drives
1.25 hugh 90: <li>shared libraries? eventually...
1.17 hugh 91: <li>support for new systems as we obtain them
1.25 hugh 92: </ul>
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94: <p>
95: <b>Documentation we're looking for:</b>
96: </p>
97:
98: <ul>
99: <li>Programming info for LCG or SPGFX framebuffers
100: <li>Software references for DSSI or MSCP
101: <li>Any edition VARM
1.17 hugh 102: </ul>
1.12 ericj 103:
1.17 hugh 104: <p>
105: <b>Known problems:</b>
106: </p>
107:
108: <ul>
1.25 hugh 109: <li>toolchain issues - overzealous gcc optimizer
1.22 hugh 110: <li>pmap - addressing limits
1.17 hugh 111: </ul>
112: </td>
113: </tr>
114: </table>
1.15 hugh 115:
116: <p>
1.20 hugh 117: In addition to formal releases, snapshots that reflect our current work
118: are available for download from the <a href=ftp.html>ftp mirrors</a>,
119: and a mailing has been set up at
120: <a href="mailto:vax@openbsd.org"> vax@openbsd.org</a>.
1.26 miod 121: To join the OpenBSD/vax mailing list, send a message body of <b>"subscribe
122: vax"</b> to <a href="mailto:majordomo@OpenBSD.org">majordomo@OpenBSD.org</a>.
123: Please be sure to check our <a href="mail.html">mailing list policy</a> before
124: subscribing.
1.12 ericj 125: </p>
126:
1.13 ericj 127: <p>
1.20 hugh 128: The OpenBSD/vax port maintainers are
129: <a href="mailto:bjc@cvs.openbsd.org">Brandon Creighton</a>
130: and <a href="mailto:hugh@cvs.openbsd.org">Hugh Graham</a>.
1.13 ericj 131: </p>
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