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- <p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to UltraSPARC
- systems.</p>
+ <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
- <h3>General Information</h3>
+ <p>This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's
+ UltraSPARC architecture. UltraSPARC is a
+ <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
+ Tier 1</a> architecture, and as such is fully supported by the
+ <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> project. However, the port
+ is not as mature as the existing i386 or alpha ports. Discussion of the
+ UltraSPARC port takes place on the
+ <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list">freebsd-sparc</a>
+ mailing list.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="#who">Credits</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
- <li><a href="#history">Port History</a></li>
- <li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
- <li><a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/sparc mailing
- list</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#hw">Hardware List</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#todo">What Needs To Be Done</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#links">Pointers Of Interest</a></li>
</ul>
- <h3>Source Code</h3>
+ <h3><a name="who">Credits</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The follow 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="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/src-981023.tar.gz">src-981023.tar.gz</a>
- - early boot code (sun4u)</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:jake@FreeBSD.org">Jake Burkholder</a></li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:tmm@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Moestl</a></li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">David Obrien</a></li>
</ul>
- <h3>Documentation and White Papers</h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/manuals/">Sun
- Microelectronics Manuals</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/home.html">Open
- Firmware Home Page (Sun)</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/datasize.html">Data
- Size Neutrality</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html">Why
- LP64?</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Other Links of Interest</h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux.html">Linux for SPARC
- Processors</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/sparc/">NetBSD/SPARC</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/sparc.html">OpenBSD/SPARC</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.firmworks.com/">FirmWorks</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li><p><strong>4 October, 2002</strong> : Impressive progress has
- been made since the last update. A fully installable snapshot
- is available from <a
- href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64">ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64</a>.
- Thanks to the relatively cheap hardware available from Sun, sparc64
- has become the most popular 64-bit platform for FreeBSD
- 5.0-CURRENT. It is expected that FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE will fully
- support sparc64.</p></li>
-
-
- <li><p><strong>10 March, 2002</strong> : Perl works. Thanks to an in
- depth bug report from Garrett Wollman we were able to identify a bug
- in the fpu emulator which was causing problems bootstrapping
- perl.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><strong>9 March, 2002</strong> : SMP support has been added,
- which is known to work on dual ultra 2 and ultra 60 workstations.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><strong>3 March, 2002</strong> : A bootable ISO image is
- now available for installing FreeBSD/sparc64 onto a supported
- system. Please see the freebsd-sparc mailing list for more
- information. The ISO image is available <a
- href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64">here</a>.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><strong>26 February, 2002</strong> : David O'Brien has
- posted a working self-hosted sparc64 toolchain. You may
- download the archive file <a
- href="http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sparc64/native-uberbaum_20020224.tar.bz2">
- here</a>. Untar it in /.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><strong>9 October, 2001</strong> : Jake Burkholder and
- Thomas Moestl have been porting FreeBSD to the UltraSparc for
- the past few months and first booted a machine into single user
- mode on the 18th of October. The log from the serial console can
- be found <a
- href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jake/tip.single_user">here</a>.</p></li>
-
+ <li><p><b>10 December, 2002</b> : Daily snapshots of 5.0-CURRENT are now
+ available on
+ <a href="ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64">
+ ftp2.freebsd.org</a>.
+ </p></li>
</ul>
+ <h3><a name="hw">Hardware List</a></h3>
- <h3><a name="history">Port History</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="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/hardware-sparc64.html">
+ release notes</a> of the <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/">
+ release</a> you are using.</p>
- <p>The FreeBSD/sparc64 platform port was initiated by Jason Evans in
- 1997. Originally, the port was backed by Sun Microelectronics. Sun
- Microelectronics (SME) is the part of Sun that makes
- microprocessors. Up until now, SMCC (the part of Sun that makes
- workstations) has been the overwhelmingly primary customer of SME.
- SME naturally wants to expand its sales, and to do that, they need
- to sell CPUs to people outside of Sun. FreeBSD was perceived as
- being a way of accomplishing this.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Ultra 5</li>
+ <li>Ultra 10</li>
+ <li>Ultra 30</li>
+ <li>Ultra 60</li>
+ <li>Ultra 80</li>
+ <li>Blade 100</li>
+ <li>Enterprise 220R</li>
+ <li>Enterprise 250</li>
+ <li>Enterprise 420R</li>
+ <li>Fire V100</li>
+ <li>Fire V120</li>
+ <li>Netra T1 105</li>
+ <li>Netra T1 AC200/DC200</li>
+ <li>Netra X1</li>
+ <li>SPARCEngine Ultra Axi</li>
+ </ul>
- <p>To understand why Sun could fund a FreeBSD port, which would seem
- to conflict with Sun's Solaris offerings, you need to realize that
- Sun is broken up into separate business units that often
- <strong>compete</strong> with each other. The Solaris people at
- Sun may not like having a FreeBSD port to compete with, but their
- power to prevent it is somewhat diminished due to the business
- model. Of course, if the FreeBSD port were a major threat, SMI
- (the main Sun umbrella company) would put a stop to it. However,
- this is unlikely, since FreeBSD mostly meets the needs of a
- different market sector than Solaris. Solaris does wonderful
- things on big MP servers. FreeBSD is fast and lean for small
- servers. It is also useful for certain types of embedded
- applications, which is actually the main reason SME is interested
- in seeing a port of FreeBSD to UltraSPARC.</p>
+ <p>The following systems are supported, but can only be netbooted due to
+ the onboard scsi controller being unsupported. Work is underway to add
+ support for this scsi controller.</p>
- <p>A while back, SME approached the FreeBSD core team and offered
- monetary compensation of some nature in exchange for an official
- UltraSPARC port. The core team turned down this offer. The exact
- reasons are known only to the core team, but Jordan Hubbard
- implied that SME's offer was not of major interest since to be of
- long term use to FreeBSD, such a proposal would need to include
- support for a number of years from someone internal to Sun.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Ultra 1E</li>
+ <li>Ultra 2</li>
+ <li>Enterprise 3500</li>
+ </ul>
- <p>Jason Evans started working at SME in September of 1997. During
- the first week, he caught wind of the negotiations SME was making
- with the core team. Jason expressed extreme interest in working
- on the project. Through a bit of persistence (and the failure of
- the proposal made by SME), he was given permission to begin work
- on the port.</p>
+ <p>The following systems are unsupported.</p>
- <p>Jason's other duties SME included finding information for
- software vendors who are porting their OSes/RTOSes to the
- UltraSPARC. This put him in a good position to gather hardware
- information pertinent to the FreeBSD port.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Ultra 1</li>
+ <li>Enterprise 450</li>
+ <li>Any system with an UltraSPARC III or greater processor.</li>
+ </ul>
- <p>Jason was instrumental in getting the FreeBSD/sparc64 port done,
- and doing much of the initial planning. Sun Microsystems has
- since backed out of their support for the FreeBSD/sparc64 effort,
- and Jason Evans eventually left Sun.</p>
+ <p>Any system not listed here that does not have an UltraSPARC III or greater
+ processor is expected to work, but may not have been tested. If you have
+ a system that is not listed here please try it, and let
+ <a href="freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org">us</a> know about it.</p>
- <p>Paolo Di Francesco was the next "father" of the port. Paolo
- attempted, for the first time in the history of the port, to
- organize information, developers, and tasks into a structure that
- can only be known as project management. If not for the 98-99
- holiday season and a few outspoken individuals on the mailing list,
- Paolo would have continued on. During his tenure, a number of
- people stepped up to work on the older Sun SPARC architectures.
- This did cause a slight chasm in the project, and many of the more
- qualified individuals were on the side of the UltraSPARC family of
- machines. Luckily, this didn't end up a period of quiet on the
- mailing list, as Telecom Italia provided us with a list keep-alive.
- A glitch in their system caused one of Paolo's posts to keep coming
- back and back and back and back... This repeat post continued well
- into 1999, when the list did once again become mostly silent.</p>
+ <h3><a name="todo">What Needs To Be Done</a></h3>
- <p>In 2000, Jake Burkholder and Thomas Moestl have made an
- incredible amount of work on the sparc port. Most of the
- development has taken place in the Perforce repository on
- freefall, and has only been merged to the HEAD (-CURRENT branch)
- of CVS after more careful testing. David O'Brien has done a lot
- of work to provide a usable toolchain for FreeBSD/sparc64
- development. Until one of the above mentioned people updates this
- paragraph, please see the mailing list archives. ;)</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Update this webpage more often.</li>
+ </ul>
- <hr noshade>
+ <h3><a name="links">Pointer Of Interest</a></h3>
- <h3><a name="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></h3>
-
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#1">What happened to the old FAQ?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#2">What is the status of the port?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#3">What machines will FreeBSD/sparc64 run on?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#4">Does FreeBSD/sparc64 support device X?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#5">Will FreeBSD/sparc64 run Solaris/SunOS binaries?</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <h4><a name="1">What happened to the old FAQ?</a></h4>
-
- <p>It's right <a
- href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/oldfaq.html">here</a>.
- The old FAQ is SME-centric, and sun4u-specific. These traits do
- not reflect the current state of the port, since SME has pulled
- their official support from the port and the majority of the
- development equipment now consists of older Sun SPARC hardware.
- Furthermore, there haven't been a lot of frequently asked questions
- of late. Most of the items in the old FAQ date back to before the
- mailing list was being archived.</p>
-
- <h4><a name="2">What is the status of the port?</a></h4>
-
- <p>It is possible to boot a number of newer UltraSparc hardware
- platforms into FreeBSD with time and patience. Please see the <a
- href="&base;/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/index.html">FreeBSD/sparc64
- Hardware Notes</a> for more information.</p>
-
- <h4><a name="3">What machines will FreeBSD/sparc64 run on?</a></h4>
-
- <p>Please see the <a
- href="&base;/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/index.html">FreeBSD/sparc64
- Hardware Notes</a> for more information.</p>
-
- <h4><a name="4">Does FreeBSD/sparc64 support device X?</a></h4>
-
- <p>See <a href="#3">question #3</a>.</p>
-
- <h4><a name="5">Will FreeBSD/sparc64 run Solaris/SunOS binaries?</a></h4>
-
- <p>It is reasonable to say that FreeBSD/sparc64 will provide some
- Solaris/SunOS emulation. It is too early in the life of the port to
- answer this any more specifically.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals/">
+ User's manuals for UltraSPARC processors</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.sparc.org/standards.html">
+ SPARC Standards 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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