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Date:      Thu, 14 May 2009 20:11:08 +0200
From:      Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Adam K." <akranzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun Fire 280R questions.
Message-ID:  <4A0C5EBC.7000907@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <fbe499bd0905121206w4a6f0ffcwb22c261c6b816203@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fbe499bd0905121206w4a6f0ffcwb22c261c6b816203@mail.gmail.com>

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Adam K. wrote:
| It looks like I may be able to get one of these boxes relatively cheaply,
| and had a few questions.
|
| Anything special about getting FreeBSD onto it? There doesn't seem to be a
| FreeBSD/Sparc64-specific install document, at least that I was able to
find.
| Any of the built-in hardware not supported, and thus needs to be
substituted
| with a PCI card?

I have just installed a Sun Fire280R with FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. It works
just fine, apart from the Cassini NIC (vendor=0x108e device=0xabba).
This isn't supported yet, see the following thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2009-May/006362.html

Have fun :)

| Thanks
|  -Adam

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| How do  you get |
|that backwards b?|
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