OpenBSD/pegasos

OpenBSD/pegasos runs on the Pegasos I system

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The current port maintainer is Dale Rahn (drahn@openbsd.org). Others are definitely welcome to contribute!

Table of contents

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

History:

The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when Genesi contacted Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard. After several months of hiatus, the port was revived.

Current status:

The Pegasos I is supported at the current time, hopefully the Pegasos II hardware will be available to developers soon and it will be supported.

X11:

XFree86 has only been tested using the accellerated ATI driver, the classic vga driver and drivers for other firmware supported video have not been tested.

Directions on enabling the accelerated X server can be found in the /usr/X11R6/README file on the installed system.

Projects (in no particular order):

• Peg II
• ...

Supported peripherals:

• Onboard PCI modules (pci)
  • VIA VT8231 PCI-ISA
  • VIA VT82C571 IDE
  • VIA VT83C572 USB
  • VIA VT82C686 AC97 Audio
• PCI-Bridges (pchb)
  • Mentor ARC MENTOR Host-PCI
• Video Cards
  • ATI Radeon 7500 QW
  • ...
• Ethernet
  • VIA Rhine/RhineII/RhineIII Ethernet adapters (vr), including:
    • Addtron AEF-360TX
    • Hawking PN102TX
    • D-Link DFE530TX
  • DEC DECchip 21143 (Tulip clones) (dc)
  • Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI adapters (fxp), including:
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100, PRO/100B, and PRO/100+
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ "Management Adapter"
    • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Dual Port
    • Intel PRO/100 VE, PRO/100 VM, and PRO/100 S
  • Intel 21145-based PCI adapters (dc)
  • Alteon Tigon I/II-based adapters (ti), including:
    • 3Com 3c985 and 3c985B
    • Alteon ACEnic V (fiber and copper)
    • Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX
    • Farallon PN9000SX
    • Netgear GA620 and GA620T
    • SGI Tigon
  • Intel i82540, i82542, i82543, i82544, i82545, and i82546 based adapters (em), including:
    • Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490)
    • Intel PRO/1000F Gigabit Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490SX)
    • Intel PRO/1000T Server Adapter (PWLA8490T)
    • Intel PRO/1000XT Server Adapter (PWLA8490XT)
    • Intel PRO/1000XS Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490XF)
    • Intel PRO/1000T Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390T)
    • Intel PRO/1000XTL Lo Profile PCI Server (PWLA8490XTL)
    • Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390MT)
    • Intel PRO/1000MT Server Adapter (PWLA8490MT)
    • Intel PRO/1000MT Dual Port Server Adapter (PWLA8492MT)
    • Intel PRO/1000MF Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490MF)
    • Intel PRO/1000MF Dual Port Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8492MF)
    • Intel PRO/1000MF Server Adapter (LX Fiber) (PWLA8490LX)
• Wireless Ethernet Adapters
  • Aironet 802.11DS PCI (an)
  • WaveLAN 802.11DS PCI and CardBus (wi)
  • Prism II and Prism 2.5 PCI and Cardbus (wi). See i386 for a complete list.
• SCSI and IDE Host Adapters
  • Symbios Logic 53c810, 53c825 (siop)
  • Adaptec AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the Adaptec AHA-274x and AHA-284x families). (ahc)
  • Adaptec AHA-[23]94x[W] cards and some on-board PCI designs using the AIC7870 and AIC7880 chips. (ahc)
  • Adaptec AHA-[23]9[34]xU[2W] cards and on-board PCI designs using the AIC789[01], AIC7895, AIC789[67] chips. (ahc)
  • Adaptec AIC-789[29] chips and products like the AHA-29160 based upon it which do 160MB/sec SCSI. (ahc) (However, the 7899G card is currently not supported with more than one device attached)
  • All PCI IDE (pciide) adapters supported by the i386 platform
• RAID Controllers
  • Adaptec SCSI RAID (I2O) controllers (ASR-2100S, ASR-3200S, etc.) (iop)
• Drives
  • All IDE devices supported on the i386.
  • All ATAPI drives supported on the i386.
  • All SCSI drives supported on the i386.
• USB Controllers/Hubs
  • Apple USB (ohci)
  • OHCI root hub (ohci)
  • USB Universal Host Controller (uhci)
  • Opti RM861HA (ohci)
• USB Devices
  • Alps Electric Apple USB Keyboard (ukbd)
  • Solid Year Keyboard and Mouse (ukbd) (ums)
  • Logitech M4848 (ums)
  • Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse (ums)
  • USB Zip Drives (umass)
• Cardbus/PCMCIA bridges
  • Orinoco/Prism cards are only current supported cards (wi)
• Cryptography Accelerators
  • Broadcom uBsec BCM5801, BCM5802, BCM5805, BCM5820, BCM5821, BCM5822, BCM5823 (and the legacy Bluesteelnet 5501 and 5601 parts)(ubsec)
  • Hifn 6500-based boards (lofn)
  • Hifn 7751/7811/7951/7955/7956-based boards (hifn), including:
    • Soekris Engineering vpn1201, vpn1211, vpn1401, and vpn1411
    • GTGI PowerCrypt Encryption Accelerator
    • NetSec 7751
    • Hifn 7751 and 9751 reference boards
    • Invertex AEON
  • SafeNet SafeXcel 1141/1741 (safe)
• Audio Devices
  • Ensoniq AudioPCI (eap)
  • VIA VT82C686A integrated AC'97 audio (auvia)
  • USB audio (uaudio)
  • USB audio (uaudio)
• Radio Receiver Devices (radio)
  • Brooktree 848/849/878/879-based TV tuner cards (bktr)
• Other Devices
  • Serial Ports: the onboard serial port should work as serial console or as a standard serial port.
  • Brooktree 848/849/878/879-based video capture cards (bktr), including:
    • Hauppage Wincast TV
    • STB TV PCI Television Tuner
    • Miro PC TV
    • Intel Smart Video Recorder III
    • IMS TV Turbo
    • AVer Media TV/FM

Unsupported Hardware:

Firewire is not yet supported by OpenBSD.

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Getting and installing OpenBSD/pegasos:

OpenBSD/pegasos has not been in an official release, however a special version of OpenBSD 3.4 was prepared for pegasos and is available from www.pegasosppc.com .

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

There are several installation media provided:

• CD boot

  With the OpenBSD CD inserted in the cdrom drive, the CD can be booted at the OpenFirmware prompt, with

    boot cd:OFWBOOT 3.4/pegasos/bsd.rd
  

Currently only HFS labeled disks can be used by OpenBSD/pegasos for booting. RDB labeled disk are not yet supported.

Typical booting from the installed harddrive is

  boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot

To boot an alternate kernel, the kernelname must be specified twice due to how use_argv[0]? is handled

  boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot /bsd.alt /bsd.alt

The first /bsd.alt argument seems be dropped by the bootloader.

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Known Problems

• OpenBSD has a problem finding itself when it is installed on disks which are not the primary disk.

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