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Date:      Thu, 04 Nov 2004 05:20:33 -0600
From:      "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@tamu.edu>
To:        yongari@kt-is.co.kr
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gee whiz I'd like to hack FreeBSD/sparc64.. ;)
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In-Reply-To: <20041104104230.GC12606@kt-is.co.kr>
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http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html

Somebody needs to update the page then ;)

I read through the list archives that Pyun linked me two, and two people
said that FreeBSD/sparc64 worked for them on an Ultra2, and an Ultra1=20

hmmm, I guess, here's the diff ;)
if somebody would be so kind as to commit it ;)

------------
tyler@debian:~/freebsd/www/en/platforms$ diff -u -N sparc.sgml
sparc.sgml.new=20
--- sparc.sgml  2004-06-30 00:36:22.000000000 -0500
+++ sparc.sgml.new      2004-11-04 05:17:26.000000000 -0600
@@ -84,22 +84,23 @@
     <li>Netra X1</li>
     <li>SPARCEngine&reg; Ultra Axi</li>
     <li>SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp</li>
+    <li>Ultra 1E</li>
+    <li>Ultra 2</li>
     <li>Ultra&trade; 5</li>
     <li>Ultra 10</li>
     <li>Ultra 30</li>
     <li>Ultra 60</li>
     <li>Ultra 80</li>
-  </ul>
+ </ul>
=20
   <p>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.</p>
+    support for this scsi controller. These systems may work with the
esp(4)
+    driver imported from <a href=3D"http://www.NetBSD.org">NetBSD</a>;
</p>
=20
   <ul>
     <li>Enterprise 3500</li>
     <li>Enterprise 4500</li>
-    <li>Ultra 1E</li>
-    <li>Ultra 2</li>
   </ul>
=20
   <p>The following systems are unsupported.</p>


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 04:42, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:31:17AM -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
>  > Howdy there, I've been listening in on this list,  I also listen in on
>  > the NetBSD/sparc64 list (I run NetBSD on my Ultra2, FreeBSD doesn't
>  > support it :/)
>  >=20
>  > Anyways, as you can probably tell by the email address, I'm in college=
,
>  > and I'd be interested in hacking around on FreeBSD under sparc64 (don'=
t
>  > want to toy with FreeBSD/i386, I'd be too tempted to use my production
>  > server for building/testing :P)
>  >=20
>  > Problem being, FreeBSD doesn't support the SCSI controller (IIRC) on
>  > Ultra2's, so I'm wondering where I could acquire a low priced
>  > Ultra5/10/anythingthatwouldwork ;)
>  >=20
> No, FreeBSD supports U2.
>=20
> daemon# devinfo
> nexus0
>   sbus0
>     pcm0
>     auxio0
>     eeprom0
>     zs0
>       zstty0
>       zstty1
>     esp0
>     ^^^^
>     hme0
>       miibus0
>         nsphy0
>     isp0
>=20
> See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2004-June/thread.h=
tml
>=20
>  > I'm on campus, so the university "pays" (ok, I do really) for bandwidt=
h,
>  > electricity, and A/C, so none of that is a problem, just _getting_ the
>  > machine is.
>  >=20
>  > Anybody have an idea?
>  >=20
>  > -R. Tyler Ballance


-R. Tyler Ballance

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