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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:49:40 +0100
From: Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org>
To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Subject: Re: Sparc T2000 support
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:03:16AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:56:47PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I guess, no developer has access to the required sun4v hardware
> > at the moment, and buying one privately just for fun and coding
> > is way above budget.
> > 
> > > As alternatives to Sol10, you could try NetBSD or one of the OpenSolaris
> > > forks (eg Illumos).
> > >
> My company is disposing of several T200 servers.  I may be able to
> have them donated but don't know whom to contact.
> 

I'd be interested in one of these.

Marius