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<p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to UltraSPARC
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<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
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<h3>General Information</h3>
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UltraSPARC architecture. UltraSPARC is a
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
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Tier 1</a> architecture, and as such is fully supported by the
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is not as mature as the existing i386 or alpha ports. Discussion of the
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UltraSPARC port takes place on the
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mailing list.</p>
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<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
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<li><a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/sparc mailing
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<h3>Source Code</h3>
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<p>The follow people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
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the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:</p>
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<li><a
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<li><a href="mailto:jake@FreeBSD.org">Jake Burkholder</a></li>
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href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/src-981023.tar.gz">src-981023.tar.gz</a>
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<li><a href="mailto:tmm@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Moestl</a></li>
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- early boot code (sun4u)</li>
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<li><a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">David Obrien</a></li>
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<h3>Documentation and White Papers</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/manuals/">Sun
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Microelectronics Manuals</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/home.html">Open
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Firmware Home Page (Sun)</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/datasize.html">Data
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Size Neutrality</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html">Why
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LP64?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Other Links of Interest</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux.html">Linux for SPARC
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Processors</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/sparc/">NetBSD/SPARC</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/sparc.html">OpenBSD/SPARC</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.firmworks.com/">FirmWorks</a></li>
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<li><p><strong>4 October, 2002</strong> : Impressive progress has
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<li><p><b>10 December, 2002</b> : Daily snapshots of 5.0-CURRENT are now
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been made since the last update. A fully installable snapshot
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available on
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is available from <a
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<a href="ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64">
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64">ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64</a>.
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ftp2.freebsd.org</a>.
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Thanks to the relatively cheap hardware available from Sun, sparc64
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has become the most popular 64-bit platform for FreeBSD
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5.0-CURRENT. It is expected that FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE will fully
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support sparc64.</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>10 March, 2002</strong> : Perl works. Thanks to an in
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depth bug report from Garrett Wollman we were able to identify a bug
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in the fpu emulator which was causing problems bootstrapping
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perl.</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>9 March, 2002</strong> : SMP support has been added,
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which is known to work on dual ultra 2 and ultra 60 workstations.</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>3 March, 2002</strong> : A bootable ISO image is
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now available for installing FreeBSD/sparc64 onto a supported
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system. Please see the freebsd-sparc mailing list for more
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information. The ISO image is available <a
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href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64">here</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>26 February, 2002</strong> : David O'Brien has
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posted a working self-hosted sparc64 toolchain. You may
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download the archive file <a
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href="http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sparc64/native-uberbaum_20020224.tar.bz2">
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here</a>. Untar it in /.</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>9 October, 2001</strong> : Jake Burkholder and
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Thomas Moestl have been porting FreeBSD to the UltraSparc for
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the past few months and first booted a machine into single user
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mode on the 18th of October. The log from the serial console can
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be found <a
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href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jake/tip.single_user">here</a>.</p></li>
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<h3><a name="history">Port History</a></h3>
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release</a> you are using.</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD/sparc64 platform port was initiated by Jason Evans in
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Microelectronics (SME) is the part of Sun that makes
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microprocessors. Up until now, SMCC (the part of Sun that makes
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SME naturally wants to expand its sales, and to do that, they need
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to sell CPUs to people outside of Sun. FreeBSD was perceived as
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<p>To understand why Sun could fund a FreeBSD port, which would seem
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to conflict with Sun's Solaris offerings, you need to realize that
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the onboard scsi controller being unsupported. Work is underway to add
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Sun is broken up into separate business units that often
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power to prevent it is somewhat diminished due to the business
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applications, which is actually the main reason SME is interested
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<p>A while back, SME approached the FreeBSD core team and offered
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support for a number of years from someone internal to Sun.</p>
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with the core team. Jason expressed extreme interest in working
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on the project. Through a bit of persistence (and the failure of
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<p>Jason's other duties SME included finding information for
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<p>Jason was instrumental in getting the FreeBSD/sparc64 port done,
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organize information, developers, and tasks into a structure that
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A glitch in their system caused one of Paolo's posts to keep coming
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back and back and back and back... This repeat post continued well
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into 1999, when the list did once again become mostly silent.</p>
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<p>In 2000, Jake Burkholder and Thomas Moestl have made an
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freefall, and has only been merged to the HEAD (-CURRENT branch)
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