The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-03-25 from the 20k more than m68k dept.

Regular readers will be aware that Miod Vallat (miod@) is documenting the adventures of porting OpenBSD to various architectures in his OpenBSD Stories collection.

The latest addition is OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 processors, where the first two of a planned total of nine chapters have been published.

The first chapter, The Forsaken RISC Architecture, takes us through some background and pre-history of the architecture.

The second chapter, A New Hope, gives insight into the early porting efforts.

We very much look forward to seeing the further chapters of the OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 processors saga.

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