From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 07:49:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AFF16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9FE43D31 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0LFkBBc043849; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:46:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <400EA00C.7010900@gldis.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:51:40 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fernan Aguero References: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on constans.gldis.ca cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any chance of running FreeBSD on a Sun Ultra 1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:49:18 -0000 Fernan Aguero wrote: > Hi! > > I am a FreeBSD user, but my experience is limited to i386 > hardaware. > > Recently, our lab received an old Ultra 1 from Sun. It is > currently running Solaris 8, but I'd like to investigate the > possibility of running FreeBSD (or perhaps some other OS). > > It seems that the Ultra 1 is unsupported, but does that mean > that it will not boot/run FreeBSD? Or just that no work is > being done from the sparc@ project? > > If it's possible to netboot it, I can set up some shared NFS > partitions on my i386 machine to hold what's necessary ... IIRC, the on board network and scsi cards are not supported (don't have functional drivers yet). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > Fernan > > PS: BTW, is there such a thing as a 'Solaris binary > compatibility' as there is for Linux in i386? I mean, may I > be able to run Solaris sparc binaries on FreeBSD-sparc? > Not at this time. -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca