From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 8:58:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C827A37B401; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca (pony.its.uwo.ca [129.100.2.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D2443FAF; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clai33@uwo.ca) Received: from femail.its.uwo.ca (hurdle.its.uwo.ca [129.100.2.108]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1KGwJHr024613; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:58:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from panther.uwo.ca (panther.uwo.ca [129.100.2.14]) by femail.its.uwo.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1KGwANi007135; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:58:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:58:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Lai To: Jeremy Faulkner Cc: questions@freebsd.org, sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC In-Reply-To: <20030220154234.GA12821@constans.gldis.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? if so, whats the work that i have to do? please advice is the freebsd-sparc kernel not open source? i cannot compile/custimize it myself? Thank you very much Alan On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Alan Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a newbie to freebsd, I want to clarify something before I get into > > using it. > > > > I plan to put freebsd5 on a sun e250, this is a pci based ultrasparc > > machine, but at the same time, this machine has a non-sun hardware, which > > is a network card thats originally for x86 machine. This card is working > > probably under solaris w/ some non-official driver, & is supported under > > linux/x86. My question is, will this card, intel fastethernet 100, or > > 3com590 work under freebsd/ultrasparc w/ some tiny tinkering? > > It's unlikely, since the drivers for those cards are commented out in > sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC. The drivers probably need work to use busdma. > > > and also, can i compile freebsd's kernel like linux? > > No. > > > thanks > > Alan. > > -- > Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message