Platforms

Supported platforms

OpenBSD is officially supported on the following platforms; snapshots and releases are generally available for them.

• alpha
  Digital Alpha-based systems
• hp300
  Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 series 300 and 400 workstations
• hppa
  Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) systems
• i386
  Standard PC and clones based on the Intel i386 architecture and compatible processors
• mac68k
  Motorola 680x0-based Apple Macintosh with MMU
• macppc
  Apple New World PowerPC-based machines, from the iMac onwards
• mvme68k
  Motorola 680x0-based VME systems
• pegasos
  Pegasos machines by Genesi Sarl. PowerPC-based, VIA chip motherboards.
• sparc
  Sun sun4, sun4c and sun4m class SPARC systems
• sparc64
  Sun UltraSPARC systems
• vax
  Digital VAX-based systems

Active porting efforts

The following ports are not officially supported, and are not on par with supported platforms, but they are being worked on actively and may hopefully become supported platforms in the future.

• amd64
  AMD64-based systems
• cats
  StrongARM 110 Evaluation Board
• mvme88k
  Motorola 881x0-based VME systems

Quiet porting efforts

The following porting efforts have not shown very much activity, and are far from being useable yet; however, there are people working on them so they may hopefully become supported platforms in the future.

• hppa64
  Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) 64 bit systems
• romp
  IBM RT/PC systems
• sgi
  SGI MIPS-based workstations

Discontinued ports

The following platforms have been supported in the past, but have been discontinued for various reasons, and might be supported again in the future.

• amiga
  Amiga and DraCo systems with MMU
• arc
  ARC compatible MIPS R4k and R5k systems
• pmax
  Digital MIPS-based systems
• sun3
  Sun sun3 class systems