Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:45:56 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: KOT MATPOCKuH <matpockuh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it posible to run FreeBSD/sparc64 on SunFire V215? Message-ID: <20090917224556.GA41908@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <3979a4b0909170200x754ea8c5l495e300b2a7a5113@mail.gmail.com> References: <3979a4b0909170200x754ea8c5l495e300b2a7a5113@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:00:32PM +0400, KOT MATPOCKuH wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to run FreeBSD/sparc64 on SunFire V215? > This system is similar to SunFire V210/V240/V125, but have PCI-X and SAS disks. The main difference is that V215 are based on the 'Fire' JBus to PCI-Express bridges which the mainline FreeBSD doesn't have a driver for so far. > > I'm tried to boot 8.0-BETA4, but it hangs after "jumping to kernel entry": > <...> > > As I know, OpenBSD 4.5 works on this platform, and I successfuly booted kernel. > Why FreeBSD isn't ported to v215? > It's not like V215 smell bad or something but adding support for additional sparc64 machines typically always requires a developer with the necessary knowledge, time and interest to have access to that hardware. I recently started working on support for V215 and I at least can already netboot the machine (which actually is UP): http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/v215.txt Things still missing are at least ata(4) (which as-is just causes a panic when compiled in) and MSI support. Marius
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