The pmax port of OpenBSD is being worked on by Thomas Graichen (graichen@OpenBSD.org). From the pmax specific code it is heavily based on NetBSD/pmax. I usually try to keep it in sync with all fixes and improvements from NetBSD/pmax. Starting with the 2.1 release of OpenBSD the pmax port is now no longer only available in form of snapshots but i still plan to make new snapshots of the current state of OpenBSD/pmax from time to time available. So far it is running very stable for me and is also reported to do so from a lot of other people on different kinds of machines. I want to take the chance here to say thanks to Dieter Mayer and Rob Urban for supplying me with the hardware to do the development on. Also i want to thank all the people from the NetBSD/pmax team and mailinglists for their help in many situations. If you are interested in getting OpenBSD/pmax you can either use the latest formal release of OpenBSD or one of the snapshots of OpenBSD/pmax if you are interested in tracking the current state - you may get them both from the usual OpenBSD ftp servers.
I'm very interested in getting feedback from people running OpenBSD/pmax on their machines ... so if you do so - please send me a mail about it ... this way i can get a feeling of how many people are using it - thanks.
Despite of the fact that the hardware specific code in OpenBSD/pmax doesn't differ much from NetBSD/pmax there are for the system as a whole some ...
OpenBSD/pmax currently supports the following machines:
OpenBSD/pmax does currently not run on:
Per Fogelstrom (pefo@OpenBSD.org) now also has one of the r4000 cpu upgraded decstations ... so i expect support for them soon.
If something is wrong here - please let me know!
Framebuffer:
Keep in mind that you need a monitor which can do sync on green- because all the above framebuffers give sync on green output. Also the monitor should be multisync-capable or it should have a dec-compatible fixed frequency. All the above framebuffers should be supported by the x server too.
Ethernet:
SCSI:
Misc:
At this place i plan to collect all hints for the installation of the 2.1 release and fixes for problems while doing it to. Up to now there are no known problems to mention here.