Re: OpenBSD as a laptop workstation?

Yes, all the time.

[root@trez root]# dmesg
OpenBSD 3.3-current (GENERIC) #2: Fri Jul  4 13:42:10 GMT 2003
    [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Tualatin) ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 797 MHz
cpu0: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SIMD
real mem  = 1073205248 (1048052K)
avail mem = 990154752 (966948K)
using 4278 buffers containing 53764096 bytes (52504K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 11/05/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: battery life expectancy 98%
apm0: AC off, battery charge high, estimated 2:00 hours
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfbb90/208 (11 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371 PCI-ISA and IDE" rev 
0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #4 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf000 0xcf000/0x800! 0xcf800/0x800!
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82830MP CPU to I/O Bridge 1" rev 0x04
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82830MP CPU to AGP Bridge" rev 0x04
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801CA/CAM USB" rev 0x02: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: vendor 0x0000 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x42
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
xl0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "3Com 3c905C 100Base-TX" rev 0x78: irq 11xl0: 
command never completed!
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: command never completed!
 address 00:06:5b:e7:b0:ae
exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: command never completed!
cbb0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Texas Instruments PCI1420 PCI-CardBus" rev 
0x00: irq 11
cbb1 at pci2 dev 1 function 1 "Texas Instruments PCI1420 PCI-CardBus" rev 
0x00: irq 11
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 4 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801CAM LPC" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801CAM IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 
0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK4019GAX>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38154MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78140160 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <IC25N040ATCS05-0>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38154MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78140160 sectors
wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801CA/CAM AC97 Audio" rev 0x02: irq 
11, ICH3 AC97
ac97: codec id 0x4352595b (Cirrus Logic <5b>)
ac97: codec features mic channel, tone, simulated stereo, bass boost, 20 bit 
DAC, 18 bit ADC, SRS 3D
audio0 at auich0
"Intel 82801CA/CAM Modem" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom0: kgdb
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask c840 netmask c840 ttymask d8c2
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
wd0: no disk label
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 81
dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd1a
rootdev=0x10 rrootdev=0x310 rawdev=0x312
an0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "Aironet, PC4800": address 00:40:96:31:27:a6
wdc2 at pcmcia1 function 0 "TOSHIBA, MK5002MPL" port 0xa400/16
wd2 at wdc2 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK5002MPL>
wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4794MB, 10390 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 9818550 sectors
wd2(wdc2:0:0): using BIOS timings


 On Wednesday 09 July 2003 21:34, Mikael Cardell wrote:
> Lane Myer <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > has anyone out there had any length of time using OpenBSD on a
> > laptop as a development workstation?
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, but yes, I ran OpenBSD for about a year on
> an IBM Thinkpad X20 on my last job. I did most if not all development
> on the laptop, running Emacs and developing programs mostly in C,
> Python and the occasional shell and awk script.