This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's - UltraSPARC® architecture. UltraSPARC is a - - Tier 1 architecture, and as such is fully supported by the - FreeBSD project. However, the port - is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports. Discussion of the - UltraSPARC port takes place on the + UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes + place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.
-The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind - the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:
- -25 October, 2004 : The CS4231 audio driver has - been ported from OpenBSD, - so SBus workstations equipped with sound hardware (Ultra 1E, - Ultra 2) get sound support.
9 October, 2004 : The auxio driver has been ported - from NetBSD.
10 June, 2004 : The esp driver has been imported - from NetBSD, so the - Ultra 1E and Ultra 2 machines get SCSI support now.
18 January, 2003 : The if_xl driver is - - now supported in -CURRENT.
10 December, 2002 : Daily snapshots of 5.0-CURRENT are now - available on - - ftp2.FreeBSD.org. -
UltraSPARC is a + + Tier 2 architecture, and as such is not fully supported by the + FreeBSD project. Although fully functional, the port + is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports.
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 - + release notes of the release you are using.
@@ -97,6 +64,7 @@Any system not listed here that does not have an UltraSPARC III or greater @@ -128,12 +95,27 @@ a system that is not listed here please try it, and let us know about it.
-Note that newer UltraSPARC-T1® processor based systems are supported + by the FreeBSD/sun4v Project
+ +The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind + the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:
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