Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:40:24 -0400 From: Mykel <Mykel@mWare.ca> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Cc: kensmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Ultra2? Message-ID: <40C8C738.4050505@mWare.ca> In-Reply-To: <200406101630.12374.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <40C89CA9.40607@mWare.ca> <20040610190148.GE70201@sirius.firepipe.net> <40C8B93C.9020003@mWare.ca> <200406101630.12374.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: >On Thursday 10 June 2004 03:40 pm, Mykel wrote: > > >>Will Andrews wrote: >> >> >>>On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I think so, since the SCSI controller isn't supported at all (as >>>>I understand the docs). >>>> >>>> >>>Actually, this changed very recently with Scott's import of the >>>esp(4) driver, ported from NetBSD. >>> >>>regards, >>> >>> >>This /sounds/ encouraging to me, but does this just solve the >>pre-install boot situation or the installation too? >> >>Can you point me at an appropriate ISO with this fix? (or tell me which >>version to look for) >> >> > >Someone will have to build an ISO as it was just committed yesterday, but with >the driver you won't need to netboot at all. Ken, do you feel like rolling a >snapshot release for sparc64 and sticking it on ftp-master? You might want >to coordinate with scottl@ in case he thinks he can fix the tagging >corruption problem in the next couple of days. > > > That would just go beyond ubercool! As a thanks... can I contribute my mediocre webskillz to http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html ? Myke
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