From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 07:38:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4459F16A41F; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:38:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A279043D45; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:38:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9L7c890077827; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:38:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id j9L7bueV077824; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:38:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:37:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20051014212338.GC7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: <20051021092956.R77791@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <843DA8355FCD0A2BC8FFD72A@palle.girgensohn.se> <20051014212338.GC7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire X4100, Sun Fire X4200, or Sun Fire X2100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:38:09 -0000 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)