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luna88k
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OpenBSD/luna88k is an effort to port OpenBSD to the
<a href="http://www.omron.com">OMRON</a> LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations.

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<a href="images/luna88k2.jpg">
<img src="images/luna88k2-small.jpg" width="272" height="240" alt="LUNA-88K2"></a>

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<h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>

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The LUNA workstation family was manufactured by
<a href="http://www.omron.com">OMRON corporation</a> in the early 1990s.
After several models based upon the Motorola 680x0 family,
the last designs were multiprocessor systems based upon the
Motorola 88100 processor.

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Kenji Aoyama wanted to run a modern operating system on his LUNA-88K2 and
eventually got tired of waiting for someone else to do this effort, so he
started to merge the
<a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/luna68k/">NetBSD/luna68k</a> device
support with the
<a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a> hardware support in January 2002.
His efforts were eventually successful and his machine booted multi-user near
the end of 2003.

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<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>

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Both LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 models are supported, and will boot multi-user.
Most of the on-board devices are supported.

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<h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>

<h4>Supported machines</h4>

<ul>
<li><strong>LUNA-88K</strong><br>
The first 88100-based LUNA workstation, with one to four 25 MHz processors,
and 16 to 64 MB of memory depending upon the model.
<li><strong>LUNA-88K2</strong><br>
An improved version of the previous design, with one to four 33 MHz processors,
16 to 112 MB of memory, and more on-board devices.
</ul>

<h4>Supported on-board devices</h4>

<ul>
<li>On-board console serial port (siotty)
<li>On-board LANCE Ethernet interface
(<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/le.4">le</a>)
<li>On-board SCSI controllers
(<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/spc.4">spc</a>)
<li>LCD display on front panel
(<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/lcd.4">lcd</a>)
<li>Keyboard, mouse and frame buffer (suitable as a console too)
<li>NEC PC-9801 extension board slot bus (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/cbus.4">cbus</a>) (LUNA-88K2 only)
  <ul>
    <li>NEC PC-9801-86: sound board (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/necsb.4">necsb</a>)
    <li>NEC PC-9801-102 and PC-9821XA-E01: PCMCIA controller (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/pcmcia.4">pcmcia</a>)
    <li>Allied Telesis  CentreCOM LA-98 series: Ethernet adapter (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/ne.4">ne</a>)
    <li>Generic driver
      (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/pcexmem.4">pcexmem</a>,
      <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/pcexio.4">pcexio</a>)
  </ul>
<li>HD647180X I/O processor
(<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/luna88k/xp.4">xp</a>)
</ul>

<h4>Unsupported devices</h4>

<ul>
<li>Devices connected via I/O processor (need firmware to work)
  <ul>
    <li>On-board non-console serial ports (tty00, tty01)
    <li>On-board printer port (lp)
    <li>On-board floppy port (rfd)
  </ul>
</ul>

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<h3 id="install">
<strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/luna88k:</strong>
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The latest supported OpenBSD/luna88k release is
<a href="77.html">OpenBSD 7.7</a>.
Here are the
<a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
OpenBSD/luna88k installation instructions</a>.

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Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
<a href="https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/luna88k">this location</a>
as well as on a few
<a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
Here are the
<a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
OpenBSD/luna88k snapshot installation instructions</a> as well.