$OpenBSD: STATUS,v 1.7 1998/01/09 07:39:44 niklas Exp $ $NetBSD: STATUS,v 1.6 1996/11/26 15:58:04 cgd Exp $ OpenBSD/Alpha's Status If you find an inaccuracy in this file, can clarify it in any place, etc., please send mail to me (niklas@appli.se). Supported hardware: DEC 3000/[456789]00 (I've not tested them, but they should "just work") using the following peripherals: Supported hardware: Built-in serial ports Built-in LANCE ethernet. Built-in SCSI chips (53c[f]94), though both may not work at the same time. Things that may work but haven't been tested: TurboChannel option slot LANCE (PMAD-A) Things are aren't supported: No frame buffers of any type. Other TurboChannel option boards (see the TODO.users file.) The ISDN/Audio chip. DEC 3000/300 family, with same hardware above. AlphaStation {200,250,255,400} systems using the following peripherals: Supported hardware: NCR 53c810 SCSI (built-in or PCI board). Built-in ns16550 serial ports. DC21040-based ethernet (built-in or PCI board). DC21140-based PCI ethernet boards. DC21050-based PCI-PCI bridges (though other types of PCI-PCI bridges should work). PCI VGA video boards. DEC ZLXp-E1 (DC21030-based, "TGA") video boards. Keyboard. PS/2-style mice. Things that may work but haven't been tested: Built-in parallel ports. ISA ns16x50-family serial port boards. ISA ns16x50 multi-port serial boards. Other NCR 53c8xx SCSI boards. Things that ARE NOT supported at this time: Sound hardware (including Windows Sound System built-in on some machines). DEC ZLXp-E2 and ZLXp-E3 PCI video boards. Other PCI boards. AlphaStation 500 and 600 systems, with the same supported hardware list as the AlphaStation {200,250,255,400} systems. (NOTE THAT THAT MEANS THE AlphaStation 600's BUILT-IN SCSI CONTROLLERS DO NOT WORK. You'll need to get a 53c810 board, or run diskless.) AXPpci systems (including Multia), with the same supported hardware list as the AlphaStation {200,250,255,400} systems. EB164 (AlphaPC 164) systems, with the same supported hardware as systems mentioned above. At this time none of the following systems are supported: DECpc AXP 150 systems (EISA-bus PC-like systems) Alpha "server" systems (other than perhaps the AlphaServer 400, which might be an AlphaStation 400 in disguise). Multiprocessor Alpha systems Console frame buffers & keyboard are supported only with the frame buffers and keyboards mentioned as supported above. On other systems (including all TurboChannel-based machines), OpenBSD/Alpha _must_ be used with a serial console. To configure various Alpha systems to use a serial console, do the following depending on the model: DEC 3000/[4-9]00's: Flip the appropriate switch on the back of the machine. DEC 3000/300 family machines: Boot the machine with the keyboard/mouse connector unplugged. DECpc AXPs, AlphaStations, AXPpci, and EB164 systems: Get to the console prompt. Set the variable "console" to be "serial", and "init" or power cycle the system. See your owner's manual for more details on how to set your machine to use a serial console. See the file src/sys/arch/alpha/README to find out how to get the latest sources and binaries. Please see the file src/sys/arch/alpha/TODO.users for a list of things that users can do to help OpenBSD/Alpha improve. If you're interested in doing any of them, or porting to new hardware, get in touch and I'll do what I can to help. This document was derived from the NetBSD version originally written by Chris Demetriou . Niklas Hallqvist niklas@openbsd.org