Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:23:13 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD on SunBlade 1500 Silver Message-ID: <1192630994.94110.5.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <47161875.4030005@alaska.net> References: <2213.5369-3380-502956735-1192610714@email.cz> <20071017.182350.193693728.hrs@allbsd.org> <47161875.4030005@alaska.net>
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On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 06:13 -0800, Royce Williams wrote: > Hiroki Sato wrote, on 10/17/2007 1:23 AM: > > IIRC FreeBSD does not support UltraSPARC III processor yet. > > How much overlap is there between potential UltraSPARC III support and > the ongoing work on UltraSPARC-T1 support? Very little. The T1 platform is very different architecturally. UltraSPARC III is actually very similar to UltraSPARC II, the problems with getting FreeBSD running on it has been due to the documentation for key chips (for example the Host-PCI bridge) being totally unavailable until quite recently. Gavin
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