> I have an Origin 300 that I'd love to see usable with OpenBSD. > If you need a platform to hack on, Please let me know and I can make it > available for your use.
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). Miod
