This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Fujitsu's SPARC64® and Oracle's UltraSPARC® architectures. Discussion of this port takes place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.
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 hardware notes of the release you are using.
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).
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:
The following Sun UltraSPARC systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:
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:
The following Fujitsu SPARC64 systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:
If you have a system that is not listed here please try it, and let us know about it.
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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