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OpenBSD/zaurus is an effort to make OpenBSD run on several PDAs of the
Sharp Zaurus family.
Initially targeted is the C3000/C3100/C3200 models which contain a 4GB CF
hard drive internally.

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<strong>The OpenBSD/zaurus port was discontinued after the 6.0 release.</strong>

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

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Shortly after Sharp unveiled its first Zaurus machines, some OpenBSD developers
started dreaming of running OpenBSD on it, to have the smallest possible
ssh-capable machine!

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After the <a href="cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a> was completed in order to benefit
from a good ARM development platform, work on the Zaurus hardware started in 2004.
Since the Zaurus was a fully capable machine, we didn't cross compile.
All builds of Zaurus were done on the Zaurus directly.

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Eventually, the <a href="armv7.html">OpenBSD/armv7</a> port development
broke arm userspace on zaurus.
Since there were effectively no remaining users,
it was removed instead of splitting the userlands.

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

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Hardware support is mostly complete and quite stable.
The Zaurus boots multiuser and X11 runs.
Most PCMCIA/CF devices work (such as wireless/ethernet cards), as well
as host USB, SD/MMC memory cards and the keyboard and touch screen are supported by X11.
Audio playback is working, and the machine is of course able to suspend
much like a regular laptop.
Even the processor performance mode can be adjusted with
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/apm.8">apmd(8)</a>, just like on other platforms.

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

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For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture, see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/intro.4">intro(4/zaurus)</a>.

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<li><strong>Zaurus SL-C3000 (Spitz) / SL-C3100 (Borzoi) / SL-C3200 (Terrier)</strong>
<li>Intel PXA27x ARM cpu at 416MHz.
<li>64MB of ram.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/com.4">com(4)</a> standard and infrared serial ports.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/lcd.4">lcd(4)</a> display panel, supporting <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/wscons.4">wscons(4)</a> console which supports X Windows.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/zts.4">zts(4)</a> touch screen acting as <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/wsmouse.4">wsmouse(4)</a> mouse controller.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/zkbd.4">zkbd(4)</a> native keyboard.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/pxapcic.4">pxapcic(4)</a> PCMCIA slot, supporting most CF-sized <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/pcmcia.4">pcmcia(4)</a> cards (or PCMCIA form-factor ones, via an adapter).
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wd.4">wd(4)</a> on-board microdrive.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ohci.4">ohci(4)</a> USB controller supporting most <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/usb.4">usb(4)</a> devices, or acting as a <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/cdcef.4">cdcef(4)</a> 'ethernet' slave.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/pxammc.4">pxammc(4)</a> MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/apm.4">apm(4)</a> power management and suspend.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/zaudio.4">zaudio(4)</a> audio.
</ul>

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Devices that can be connected:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.0/zaurus/zrc.4">zrc(4)</a> remote control.
<li>Most USB devices, see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/usb.4">usb(4)</a> for a list.
<li>Most PCMCIA devices (in a CF formfactor, or via a CF-PCMCIA adapter), see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcmcia.4">pcmcia(4)</a>.
</ul>

<h3 id="install">
<strong>Getting and installing</strong>
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The last supported OpenBSD/zaurus release was
<a href="60.html">OpenBSD 6.0</a>.
Here are the
<a href="https://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
OpenBSD/zaurus 6.0 installation instructions</a>.