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5 <title>OpenBSD/solbourne</title>
6 <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD/solbourne page">
7 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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9 <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/solbourne.html">
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12 <h2 id=OpenBSD>
13 <a href="index.html">
14 <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
15 solbourne
16 </h2>
17 <hr>
18 
19 <table><tr><td>
20 <p>
21 OpenBSD/solbourne is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the Solbourne "IDT"
22 family of workstations, built upon the SPARC-compatible Panasonic <i>KAP</i>
23 processor.
24 </table>
25 
26 <hr>
27 
28 <h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>
29 
30 <p>
31 The KAP processor used in the IDT systems, albeit using an instruction
32 set similar to the SPARC processors, uses a completely different MMU.
33 Because of this, no free operating system considered running on these Solbourne
34 machines more than a few minutes...
35 
36 <p>
37 At some point, an S4000 was donated by Mike Nicewonger to Miod Vallat, who then
38 had no excuse not to work on a port.
39 After a few years of procrastination, real work on a port eventually started in
40 march 2005, leading to an initial import in the OpenBSD tree exactly one month
41 later.
42 
43 <hr>
44 
45 <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
46 
47 <p>
48 Currently, only the S4000 system has been tested; but other systems should work,
49 although the L2 cache in the S4000DX systems is not supported.
50 
51 <p>
52 Right now, the system boots single-user, but userland has issues.
53 
54 <hr>
55 
56 <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>
57 
58 <p>
59 <h4>Supported machines</h4>
60 
61 <p>
62 <ul>
63 <li>S3000 <i>(untested)</i>
64 <li>S4000
65 <li>S4000DX <i>(untested)</i> (but the L2 cache is not supported yet)
66 </ul>
67 
68 <p>
69 <h4>Supported devices</h4>
70 
71 <ul>
72 <li><strong>Serial ports</strong>
73   <ul>
74    <li>ttya and ttyb on-board serial ports
75   </ul>
76 
77 <li><strong>Ethernet adapters</strong>
78   <ul>
79    <li>on-board AMD Lance Ethernet
80   </ul>
81 </ul>