OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

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natas•about 1 hour ago

I really like to see those old dmesgs, quite amazing work supporting this in OpenBSD (at the time)

ninjin•10 minutes ago

You still see interesting efforts today. Here is a dmesg from a Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 booting 7.9 (released in May this year) that appeared on bugs@ just a few weeks ago:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=178663407424547

You of course also have the absolutely insane luna88k support [1] and I have myself been looking into getting my hands on a landisk [2] box as the Hitachi SuperH CPU is fascinating (I only knew of it from old arcade boards and the Sega Dreamcast).

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

[2]: https://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html

bitwize•about 1 hour ago

The OpenBSD maintainers are heroes for keeping hardware like this running. This is about the time Greg KH might say "yeah, there are like five of these left, zero in actual production, and the code to support them is gumming up the LLMs. I'm just going to take it out of the kernel."

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

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