Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:56:07 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E3500/E4500 not supported? Message-ID: <41F91D27.6070409@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050128.012009.70747717.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <20050128.012009.70747717.hrs@allbsd.org>
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Hiroki Sato wrote: > Hi, > > Is the following description in www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml still true? > > The following systems are supported, but can only be netbooted due to > the onboard scsi controller being unsupported. Work is underway to add > support for this scsi controller. These systems may work with the esp > driver imported from NetBSD. > > - Enterprise 3500 > - Enterprise 4500 > > I tried 5.3-RELEASE on E4500 with SBus I/O board but the SCSI > controller (FAS366) was recognized as esp(4) and it seemed to work fine. > Although I do not know the PCI board-only case, I think it should > be explained in sparc.sgml. Did somebody try these machines? > I didn't know that such beasts existed. If they have a FAS366 and you are confirming that they work, then I see nothing wrong with correcting the text. Note that our esp driver only works with SBUS, so I'm not sure what you mean about PCI. Scott
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