From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 22:11:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: sparc64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DEF1065670 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 22:11:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from lerwick.hopto.org (86.78.187.81.in-addr.arpa [81.187.78.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7508FC14 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 22:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 68669 invoked by uid 98); 26 May 2010 23:02:14 +0100 Received: from 192.168.0.2 by polaris.lerwick.hopto.org (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.95.1/9971. hbedv: 7.9.1.53/7.1.6.174. spamassassin: 3.2.5. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 0.088515 secs); 26 May 2010 22:02:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (192.168.0.2) by lerwick.hopto.org with SMTP; 26 May 2010 23:02:13 +0100 From: Craig Butler To: Marius Strobl In-Reply-To: <20100526182735.GT68288@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20100526182735.GT68288@alchemy.franken.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 22:44:25 +0100 Message-ID: <1274910265.11095.2.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: additional sparc64 machines supported X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 22:11:08 -0000 On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:27 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > FYI, the current set of snapshots [1] additionally supports the following > machines: > > o Fujitsu (Siemens) PRIMEPOWER 250 (likely also 450, 650 and 850) > o Sun Fire B100s server blades (for the Sun Fire B1600 platform; previously > it was impossible to use the on-board NICs thus these machines were pretty > much useless with FreeBSD) > o Sun Fire V890 (likely also V490, so far both only with non-mixed US-IV/IV+ > CPU-configurations though due to unsolved timekeeping problems; performance > with US-IV+ CPUs not yet isn't were it should be though) > > Also problems with Schizo version 7 bridges (actually the firmware of these > machines) triggering panics during boot are solved in these snapshots. > > Marius > > [1]: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201005-sparc64-disc1.iso > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-8.1-PRERELEASE-201005-sparc64-disc1.iso > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-7.3-STABLE-201005-sparc64-disc1.iso > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Brilliant Marius, thank you to you and the rest of the sparc64 team... amazing progress. Hopefully I'll be able to get hold of some ultrasparc III and IV machines soon... Cheers Craig B