From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 12:27:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AC51065673 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arek@wup-katowice.pl) Received: from mx1.wup-katowice.pl (mx1.wup-katowice.pl [195.39.216.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6098FC13 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arek@wup-katowice.pl) Received: from mx1.wup-katowice.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.wup-katowice.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A915961C5B; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:32:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (arek.wup-katowice.pl [195.39.216.233]) by mx1.wup-katowice.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7E22761C58; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:32:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4907053D.1090703@wup-katowice.pl> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:27:41 +0100 From: Arek Czereszewski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Butler References: <4906B05C.5060401@wup-katowice.pl> <1225191116.81074.11.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <1225191116.81074.11.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MailServers 5.5.33/RELEASE, bases: 28102008 #1212262, status: clean Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUN Fire V250 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: arek@wup-katowice.pl List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:43 -0000 Craig Butler wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:25 +0100, Arek Czereszewski wrote: > Hello Arek > > I fear not, the processors inside the v250 are Ultrasparc III which is > unsupported as of FreeBSD 7. > > Recently people have been working on integrating the US III-- Marius > Strobl has released a image with basic support for processor. The V250 > was not mentioned on his email. > > Feel free to look through the archives the subject you are looking for > is USIII support. The image is available at; > > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/8.0-20081011-SNAP-sparc64-disc1.iso.gz > > Please bear in mind that it is a work in progress (and much appreciated) > and it may not even work on your V250. > Hi Craig, Thank you for reply. When I will get this machine I'll try iso from marius. Regards Arek -- Arek Czereszewski arek (at) wup-katowice (dot) pl "UNIX allows me to work smarter, not harder."