Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:12:11 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others Message-ID: <DF684646-3F24-48F1-A93A-3D56B5DC8763@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <20080411210709.GG30953@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <ftng7h$tb$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080411210709.GG30953@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Apr 11, 2008, at 23:07, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based >> workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems >> (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? > > I've not used any of these but: > 1) The Ultra 25 is UltraSPARC IIIi based. This CPU is not supported > by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation. I thought this was resolved a while back? In any case, OpenBSD has had USiii support for some time now. I could get my hands on some USiii (and possibly IV) hardware to make available if...... ;) /Eirik > 2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and > U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported, > at least on those Linuxes. > > -- > Peter Jeremy > Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to > implement > an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed > behaviour.
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