OpenBSD mac68k


OpenBSD/mac68k used to run on many of the Motorola 680x0-based Apple Macintosh computers. It used to require a Motorola 68020 or better processor, with an external Motorola 68851 PMMU in case of a 68020.

The OpenBSD/mac68k port was discontinued after the 5.1 release.


History:

The mac68k port of OpenBSD was derived from NetBSD/mac68k, and it used to support most of the same hardware as NetBSD.

Active building and testing of OpenBSD/mac68k was discontinued after OpenBSD 4.6 due to lack of interest with developers and builder.

Eventually the lack of a proper firmware interface, requiring the use of a MacOS application as the bootloader, with little or no possibility of updating this application to match progress in OpenBSD (let alone rebuild it with a free software toolchain) convinced the developers to give up supporting this port, and remove the code from the tree.


Supported hardware:

Supported models

OpenBSD/mac68k used to run on a large part of the 680x0-based Macintosh computers. The kernel itself had support for the following processor combinations:

The following Macintosh models used to be supported and tested. This means that at least the SCSI controller, serial console and on-board ethernet would function on these models. On some of these machines, a full 68040 CPU was required to replace the default 68LC040 CPU.

Supported devices

Untested systems

The following Macintosh models used to be untested, and/or lacked support for major subsystems.

Unsupported systems

Unsupported devices


Getting and installing OpenBSD/mac68k:

The last supported OpenBSD/mac68k release was OpenBSD 5.1.