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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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