From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 20:41:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org 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 1B69A16A87D for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 20:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E35543D6E for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 20:41:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 9so157979nzo for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G5QRxZwEt5PIo2SbrjXFujBAl10z8zMJKrzMukfh+o8IT8QLKLB+0hHaOQX5zPRS0XRN/ODlrjuGMnNYm+HIhoSLc7nrj82zLimOAi2m2AsUZ89Wk872vYNkzRXOJ6sQAl/vC8xOeU81yzuZQU9a9Ri4beqVe+A38jMrkbslRTY= Received: by 10.64.53.12 with SMTP id b12mr796383qba; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.225.13 with HTTP; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:41:51 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Garance A Drosihn" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd is self-hosting on the T1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kmacy@fsmware.com List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:42:07 -0000 ATA support is the one potential issue. I'm currently netbooting my T2000 because of continued MPT crankiness. I've been told I can get access to T1000s for testing purposes so I'll test it out in the near future. I already know of one other FreeBSD developer who has convinced his employer to pick one up. On 5/31/06, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:35 PM -0700 5/20/06, Kip Macy wrote: > >I'm proud to announce that FreeBSD can now buildworld > >on the UltraSPARC T1. > > Would this be able to run on a Sun Fire T1000 Server, > 6 core, 1.0GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor machine? > > I'm somewhat tempted to buy one of these, but it costs > enough that I'd want to be *sure* it is a reasonable > machine for FreeBSD/sparc64! > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu >