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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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Subject: Re: SUN Fire V250
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Arek Czereszewski wrote:
> 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.

FYI, both V250 and Blade2500 are based on what appears to be
the ATX-version of the V210/V240 mainboard and which in turn
is known to work. However, you're only choice is a serial
console for now.

Marius