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  <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>

  <p>This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Fujitsu's
    SPARC64&reg; and Oracle's UltraSPARC&reg; architectures.
    Discussion of this port takes
    place on the
    <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64">freebsd-sparc</a>
    mailing list.</p>

  <h3>Table Of Contents</h3>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
    <li><a href="#hw">Hardware List</a></li>
    <li><a href="#who">Credits</a></li>
    <li><a href="#list">FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list</a></li>
    <li><a href="#links">Points of Interest</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3>

  <p>UltraSPARC is a
    <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
    Tier 2</a> architecture, and as such is not fully supported by the
    <a href="&base;">FreeBSD</a> project.  Although fully functional, the port
    is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports.</p>

  <h3><a name="hw">Hardware List</a></h3>

  <p>A summary of supported systems follows.  SMP is supported on all supported
    systems that contain more than 1 processor.  For full details please see
    the
    <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/hardware.html">
    hardware notes</a> of the <a href="&base;/releases/">
    release</a> you are using.</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Naturetech GENIALstation 777S</li>
    <li>Sun Blade 100</li>
    <li>Sun Blade 150</li>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 150</li>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 220R</li>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 250</li>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 420R</li>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 450</li>
    <li>Sun Fire B100s (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in
      8.1-RELEASE)</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V100</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V120</li>
    <li>Sun Netra&trade; T1 100/105</li>
    <li>Sun Netra T1 AC200/DC200</li>
    <li>Sun Netra t 1100</li>
    <li>Sun Netra t 1120</li>
    <li>Sun Netra t 1125</li>
    <li>Sun Netra t 1400/1405</li>
    <li>Sun Netra 120</li>
    <li>Sun Netra X1</li>
    <li>Sun SPARCEngine&reg; Ultra AX1105</li>
    <li>Sun SPARCEngine Ultra AXe</li>
    <li>Sun SPARCEngine Ultra AXi</li>
    <li>Sun SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp</li>
    <li>Sun SPARCEngine CP1500</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra&trade; 1</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 1E</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 2</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 5</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 10</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 30</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 60</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 80</li>
    <li>Sun Ultra 450</li>
 </ul>

  <p>The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD.  In
    particular the fibre channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not
    supported.  However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI controller
    supported by the esp(4) driver (Sun ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI
    and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 3500</li>
    <li>Sun Enterprise 4500</li>
  </ul>

  <p>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on
    Sun UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes
    the following known working systems:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Sun Blade 1000</li>
    <li>Sun Blade 1500</li>
    <li>Sun Blade 2000</li>
    <li>Sun Blade 2500</li>
    <li>Sun Fire 280R</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V210</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V240</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V250</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in
      7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only, for which support
      first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE,
      other centerplanes might work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V880</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed
      Ultrasparc IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)</li>
    <li>Sun Netra 20/Netra T4</li>
  </ul>

  <p>The following Sun UltraSPARC systems are not tested but
    believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Sun Fire V125</li>
    <li>Sun Fire V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed
      Ultrasparc IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)</li>
  </ul>

  <p>Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Fujitsu SPARC64 V
    are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following
    known working systems:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER&reg; 250</li>
  </ul>

  <p>The following Fujitsu SPARC64 systems are not tested but believed to be
    also supported by FreeBSD:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 450</li>
    <li>Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 650</li>
    <li>Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 850</li>
  </ul>

  <p>If you have a system that is not listed here please try it, and let
    <a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org">us</a> know about it.</p>

  <h3><a name="who">Credits</a></h3>

  <p>The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
    the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="mailto:jake@FreeBSD.org">&a.jake;</a></li>
    <li><a href="mailto:tmm@FreeBSD.org">&a.tmm;</a></li>
    <li><a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">&a.obrien;</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list</a></h3>

  <p>To subscribe to this list, send an email to <tt class="
    EMAIL">&#60;<a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc64-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-sparc64-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
    or visit the
    <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64">mailman interface</a>.</p>

  <h3><a name="links">Pointers Of Interest</a></h3>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.sparc.org/specificationsDocuments.html">
      SPARC Standards and technical documents</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/">
      NetBSD/sparc64</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">
      OpenBSD/sparc64</a></li>
  </ul>

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