OpenBSD/mvme88k

Past history of the port
Current status
Where to get it
Supported hardware list
Where can you find hardware?
More 88k pictures
Project list

History:

Nivas Madhur started the initial mvme88k port for the MVME187 card, but has since moved on to another employer. Steve Murphree, Jr. has since had major changes including revamped autoconf and on-board SCSI driver. New, greatly expanded VME bus support. A working install process that correctly creates a Motorola VID block on the disks

There is a snapshot avaliable as of 2.4. The port supports the MVME187 Single Board Computer (SBC). MVME188 multi-processor board support is currently "in the works." Support for the MVME197 is planned, but we need hardware to get things going. (see the "Wanted List".)

Current Status:

The people working the most on OpenBSD/mvme88k are: Steve Murphree, Jr. More would be nice :)

Email may be sent to the maintainer of the OpenBSD/mvme88k port at smurph@openbsd.org.

The installation tools and process as of the 2.5 release actually work. OpenBSD/mvme88k can be installed or upgraded via tape ramdisk images as well as network and diskless installs.

Where to get it:

Supported hardware list:

OpenBSD/mvme88k runs on the following classes of machines:

MVME187: Motorola 88100 based Single Board Computer (SBC)

Supported devices

Floppy drives:
- SCSI floppy disk drives
Serial ports:
- tty00, tty01, tty02 and tty03 on-board Cirrus Lodgic serial ports (MVME187)
- MVME332 8-port serial card
Ethernet adapters:
- on-board Intel Ethernet (MVME187)
- MVME376 AMD Lance Ethernet.
SCSI controllers:
- on-board "NCR" SCSI controller (MVME187)
- MVME328 SCSI controller

OpenBSD/mvme88k does not run on these machines (yet):

MVME188: Just a matter of time until I get a chassis for it
MVME197: I can't seem to get one donated...

Unsupported Devices. There are many more...

Disk Controllers:
- MVME327 SCSI controller
Ethernet Controllers:
- MVME374 LANCE controller
WAN Controllers:
- MVME333 WAN controller

Where can you find hardware?

John's Industrial Surplus..

If you really want to play 88k, this is what I suggest:

MVME188 8000 series dual proc system. It has a really cool chassis.
MVME187 SBC
NCD 88k X-Terminal. It's a cool 88k X display.

John has all of this stuff. Give him a shout and see what he can get for you.

Project list:

Start work on MVME197 port.
Finnish work on MVME188 port.
Start work on device drivers for unsupported VME cards.

mvme88k pictures:

The picture at the top of this page is a MVME 900 Series Chassis with a MVME187 33 Mhz, 32 Megabyte RAM SBC board, 4 MVME332XT serial baords and an ARCHIVE 250 MB QIC Tape unit. It's hostname is m187. It is the primary build machine for the OpenBSD/mvme88k port.

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