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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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Subject: cas(4) [Re: Tier 2 Support]
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:43:13PM +0000, Craig Butler wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about the Blade 100's (the desktop-style machines) or
> > the B100 Blades (Sun's early attempt at Blade servers)?  If you're
> > talking the former, I can confirm that FreeBSD runs very well on them,
> > however I don't believe the on-board network card is supported on the
> > latter.
> 
> aye, 
> 
> If its the b100s that slot into a b1600 chassis FreeBSD doesn't
> currently work with the cassini nics that are in the chassis.... yet 

FYI, I've put a cas(4) with working basic support for Cassini+
and Saturn into the usiii perforce tree. If you have the latter
you'll also want to fetch nsgphy(4) from there.

Marius