On 06/19/2012 10:31 PM, Miod Vallat wrote:
The showstopper preventing Origin 2000 and Origin 300 to run OpenBSD, is
the serial console driver. The serial chip is an homemade SGI device
which is basically a DMA engine around a traditional NS16550A chip.
At the moment, the OpenBSD kernel tries to drive this chip as a regular
NS16550A by running the DMA engine in so-called passthrough mode;
unfortunately this does not work correctly on some systems (such as the
Origin 300).
The good news is that I have finally started to work on a real driver
for this chip. I hope to be finished within a few weeks (famous last
words).
Hi Miod,
Any news on this? I have the opportunity to get two Origin 300 systems
for a real bargain and it would be really nice to get OpenBSD running on
them.
Thanks,
Maurice
