Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:37:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire X4100, Sun Fire X4200, or Sun Fire X2100 Message-ID: <20051021092956.R77791@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20051014212338.GC7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <843DA8355FCD0A2BC8FFD72A@palle.girgensohn.se> <20051014212338.GC7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, 2005-Oct-14 16:29:46 +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> Anyone tried and successfully used the new Sun servers, Sun Fire X4100, Sun >> Fire X4200, or Sun Fire X2100, with FreeBSD-5.x? > > According to http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sparc.html > The following systems are unsupported. > * Any system with an UltraSPARC III or greater processor. > so I'd say it won't work. (Google for openbsd+ultrasparc for background). > > Those Systems are Opteron-based Systems, Codename "Galaxy" from SUN. As they are brand-new, and some of the early demonstration systems also shipped without CD/DVD-ROM, not many of them have been tested with FreeBSD. I hope that we get some of them in the next weeks, with some luck with DVD, so that I can have some short test... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@ohoyer.de Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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