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 of Motorola also independently wrote a port to the MVME147. For most kernel parts, both their ports were analysed but more code was written new 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. Steve Murphee continued work and made the MVME177 work, as well as adding support for some VME devices.
The people working the most on OpenBSD/mvme68k currently consists of Steve Murphee, Theo de Raadt, and Dale Rahn. Of course, others are very welcome!
The same kernel currently runs on the following pieces of hardware:
For all these architectures, both diskless booting using sun-style bootparams/nfs and regular full disk booting are supported.
Note: This port has COMPAT_SUNOS support, so it can run SunOS sun3 binaries. As such, I think that the MVME177 is probably the fastest machine capable of running SunOS sun3 binaries....
Snapshots are made available from time to time.
Copyright Motorola Inc. 1988 - ...., All Rights Reserved MVME177 Debugger/Diagnostics Release Version ... COLD Start Local Memory Found =02000000 (&33554432) MPU Clock Speed =50Mhz 177-Bug>bo Booting from: VME177, Controller 0, Drive 0 Loading: Operating System Volume: NBSD IPL loaded at: $003F0000 >> OpenBSD BOOT [$Revision: 1.8 $] using ctrl 0 dev 0 Booting /OpenBSD @ 0x10000 8c000+8000+caf8 [8f40+9162] start 0x10020 [ preserving 73898 bytes of OpenBSD symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. OpenBSD 3.1-current (GENERIC) #17: Thu Apr 18 14:02:28 PDT 2002 deraadt@mvme68k.openbsd.org:/sys/arch/mvme68k/compile/GENERIC Motorola 177-001: 50MHz MC68060 CPU+MMU+FPU, 8k on-chip physical I/D caches real mem = 33554432 avail mem = 27975680 (6721 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 0x00400000-0x00ff0000 to VME 0x00400000-0x00ff0000 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:23:5c:a2 siop0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x47000 ipl 2: version 2 target 7 scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets siop0: target 0 now synchronous, period=100ns, offset=8 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1080S, 1Q04> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 1042MB, 3835 cyl, 4 head, 139 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 2134305 sec total memc0 at pcctwo0 offset 0x43000: MCECC rev 0 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/rsd0g: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rsd0e: file system is clean; not checking setting tty flags starting network add host m177: gateway localhost starting system logger starting rpc daemons: portmap ypbind amd. 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 Apr 18 14:50:53 PDT 2002 OpenBSD/mvme68k (m177) (ttya) login: