OpenBSD/mvme68k runs on a large subset of Motorola's 680x0-based VME motherboard family.
There is currently no maintainer for the mvme68k port.
This port was primarily done by Theo de Raadt in 1995 as a contract to Willowglen Singapore. An earlier port to the MVME147 by Chuck Cranor based on Paul Mackerras' old DA30 code (and using hardware donated by Jonathan Levine at Theo's request) provided a solid development platform.
Bizzarely, Dale Rahn, working for Motorola back then, also independently wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were analyzed but more code was written from scratch by Theo, or based on the hp300 code.
Dale helped significantly during the porting to the 68040 models and wrote most of the code specific to the MVME167 model. Later, Steve Murphree continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as adding support more some VME devices.
Currently, all the boards listed in the supported hardware list section below boot multi-user, and support enough of the on-board devices to be generally useable.
OpenBSD/mvme68k is able to run sun3 SunOS binaries via the COMPAT_SUNOS kernel option. Thus, the MVME177 board is probably the fastest machine capable of running SunOS m68k binaries!
As none of the mvme68k boards have graphics devices, and none of the Motorola VME frame buffers are currently supported, there are no X Window System servers available. However, a complete set of X clients and utilities is available, allowing OpenBSD/mvme68k machines to behave as X11 font servers, or run X clients on remote display.
Other models may work already (MVME165, MVME166, for example).
The latest supported OpenBSD/mvme68k release is OpenBSD 3.3. Here are the OpenBSD/mvme68k 3.3 installation instructions .
Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/mvme68k snapshot installation instructions as well.
As VME hardware is quite uncommon in the average retail place, this section is here to satisfy the well-founded curiosity about the mvme68k hardware.
This picture is a MVME162 processor board, with the on-board ethernet and SCSI
controller options, one IndustryPack module, and a memory extension.
This is a boot log of an MVME177 system.
OpenBSD 3.2-current (GENERIC) #5: Mon Dec 23 01:49:09 GMT 2002 miod@bioue.gentiane.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme68k/compile/GENERIC Motorola MVME177-011: 60MHz MC68060 CPU+MMU+FPU, 8k on-chip physical I/D caches real mem = 33554432 avail mem = 27525120 (6720 pages) using 409 buffers containing 1675264 bytes of memory mainbus0 (root) pcctwo0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfff00000: rev 0 clock0 at pcctwo0 ipl 5 cl0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x45000 ipl 3: console vme0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x40000: system controller vme0: using BUG parameters vme0: 1phys 0x02000000-0xefff0000 to VME 0x02000000-0xefff0000 vme0: 2phys 0x00000000-0x00000000 to VME 0x00000000-0x00000000 vme0: 3phys 0x00000000-0x00000000 to VME 0x00000000-0x00000000 vme0: 4phys 0x00000000-0x00000000 to VME 0x00000000-0x00000000 vme0: vme to cpu irq level 1:1 vmes0 at vme0 vmel0 at vme0 ie0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x46000 ipl 1: address 08:00:3e:26:3f:69 ssh0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x47000 ipl 2: version 2 target 7 scsibus0 at ssh0: 8 targets ssh0: target 0 now synchronous, period=100ns, offset=8 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <COMPAQPC, DCAS-32160, S65A> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 2006MB, 8188 cyl, 3 head, 167 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 4110000 sec total memc0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x43000: MEMC040 rev 1 nvram0 at pcctwo0 offset 0xc0000: MK48T08 len 8192 sram0 at mainbus0 addr 0xffe00000: len 131072 boot device: sd0 root on sd0a rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0x800 rawdev=0x802 Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks. /dev/rsd0a: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0d: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0e: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0f: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0g: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0h: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0i: file system is clean; not checking setting tty flags ddb.console: 0 -> 1 kern.splassert: 0 -> 2 starting network add net default: gateway 10.0.1.101 starting system logger starting rpc daemons: portmap ypbind rdate timed. savecore: no core dump checking quotas: done. building ps databases: kvm dev. clearing /tmp starting pre-securelevel daemons:. setting kernel security level: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1 preserving editor files creating runtime link editor directory cache. starting network daemons: sendmail inetd sshd. starting local daemons:. standard daemons: cron. Thu Dec 26 18:07:08 GMT 2002 OpenBSD/mvme68k (bioue.gentiane.org) (console) login: