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From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To: Ira Downing <dml337ira@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sparc T2000 support
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On 2013-Jan-30 15:47:34 -0500, Ira Downing <dml337ira@gmail.com> wrote:
>Any hope for Sparc T2000 support. These systems are going to waste if I'm
>locked into installing Solaris 10.

There's currently no sun4v support in FreeBSD because no-one has the
complete {motivation, skill, time} set.

As alternatives to Sol10, you could try NetBSD or one of the OpenSolaris
forks (eg Illumos).

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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