OpenBSD/armish

OpenBSD/armish runs on various ARM-based appliances, using the Redboot boot loader (and which boot Linux by default).

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The current port maintainer is Dale Rahn (drahn@openbsd.org).

Table of contents

• History of the port
• Current status
• Project list
• Getting and installing OpenBSD/armish

History:

OpenBSD/armish is the 3rd OpenBSD port to ARM based machines, after cats and zaurus. It is intended to support a variety of rather similar ARM-based machines:

• Certance CP3100
• Thecus N2100 (plus rebadged versions: Allnet ALL6500, Evesham SilverSTOR M-Box)
• Thecus N4100 (plus rebadged versions: Allnet ALL6400, Evesham SilverSTOR XS)
• IO-DATA HDL-Gxxx, HDL-GWxxx, and HDL-GZxxx series
  • These models are a subset of the "Giga-landisk" product line, but the HDL-GXxxx models are not compatible (use Marvell CPUs).
  • The standard "landisk" (100mbit) machines are instead supported by the landisk architecture.

Current status:

Development is currently pretty active.

• The Thecus N2100 runs multiuser and boots from disk using its own bootloader, or from the network using built-in Redboot.
• The IO-DATA HDL-G series is multiuser and will soon be able to boot from disk as well.

Projects (in no particular order):

• Finish the Certance CP3100 support
• Support more devices
• Better support for i2c devices on the Thecus
• Redboot flash configuration support
• Put the bootloader into IO-DATA HDL flash, to permit native booting.
• Support other similar machines

Getting and installing OpenBSD/armish

The latest supported OpenBSD/armish release is OpenBSD 4.8. Here are the OpenBSD/armish 4.8 installation instructions .

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/armish snapshot installation instructions as well.