OpenBSD/luna88k

OpenBSD/luna88k is an effort to port OpenBSD to the OMRON LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations.

Due to hardware difficulties, the OpenBSD/luna88k port has not been updated after the 4.1 release.

A mailing list for m88k-based ports is available at m88k@openbsd.org. To join the OpenBSD/m88k mailing list, send a message body of "subscribe m88k" to majordomo@openbsd.org. Please be sure to check our mailing list policy before subscribing.

The current port maintainer is Kenji Aoyama (aoyama@openbsd.org), with the help of Miod Vallat. Others are definitely welcome to contribute!

Table of contents

• History of the port
• Current status
• Project list
• Supported hardware
• Getting and installing OpenBSD/luna88k

History:

The LUNA workstation family was manufactured by OMRON corporation in the early 1990s. After several models based upon the Motorola 680x0 family, the last designs were multiprocessor systems based upon the Motorola 88100 processor.

Kenji Aoyama wanted to run a modern operating system on his LUNA-88K2 and eventually got tired of waiting for someone else to do this effort, so he started to merge the NetBSD/luna68k device support with the OpenBSD/mvme88k hardware support in January 2002. His efforts were eventually successful and his machine booted multi-user near the end of 2003.

Unfortunately, his machine died shortly before the OpenBSD 4.2 release. As long as no developer has a working luna88k machine, the port is kept stagnant and neither snapshots nor releases are built.

Current status:

Both Luna-88k and Luna-88k2 models are supported, and will boot multi-user. Most of the on-board devices are supported, but the system will currently run on one processor only.

Projects (in no particular order):

• Better mouse support, and X server.
• Multiprocessor (SMP) support.
• Support for the remaining unsupported devices (extra serial ports, external floppy port, NEC PC-98 C-bus...)

Supported hardware:

Supported machines

• LUNA-88K
  The first 88100-based LUNA workstation, with one to four 25 MHz processors, and 16 to 64 MB of memory depending upon the model.
• LUNA-88K2
  An improved version of the previous design, with one to four 33 MHz processors, 16 to 112 MB of memory, and more on-board devices.

Supported on-board devices

• On-board console serial port (siotty)
• On-board LANCE Ethernet interface (le)
• On-board SCSI controllers (spc)
• LCD display on front panel (lcd)
• Keyboard, mouse and frame buffer (suitable as a console too)

Unsupported devices

• On-board non-console serial ports (tty00, tty01)
• On-board printer port (lp)
• On-board floppy port (rfd)
• NEC PC-98 slot

Getting and installing OpenBSD/luna88k:

The latest supported OpenBSD/luna88k release is OpenBSD 4.1. Here are the OpenBSD/luna88k 4.1 installation instructions .