Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:30:19 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of freebsd on ultrasparc? Message-ID: <48485AEB.1090902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70806051341x95eb814j6222c04dbfd7fb2d@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e5cf6a70806051341x95eb814j6222c04dbfd7fb2d@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: | I'm a little confused about the status of FreeBSD on UltraSparc. | | This page says it is a fully supported Tier 1 platform: | | http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html | | However, the words "Tier 1" link directly to this page: | | http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html | | Which says that Sparc64 is only a Tier 2 "development architecture". | | Which is correct? The former. Sparc64 is definitely Tier 1... ... at least for some more time... :'( | I am considering running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire V210 UltaSparc system. My | whole reason for wanting to put FreeBSD on this box (which currently | runs Solaris 10) is to run bind and build ports. I have no experience with Sun Fire's. The HW list on the page cited above only lists 100s and 120s as supported models. I hope it's just because it hasn't been updated for a while.. | | | Joe - -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhIWuoACgkQwMJqmJVx946gQgCfe+xevBMsKiTGf2MWhtr96Ozt XMoAni2/xSeUte4pZaGiWwJz0kXoSqQR =QqBc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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