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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: fddi <fddi@gmx.it>
Subject: Re: sun fure v490
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:15:02PM +0200, fddi wrote:
> Hello I ask if the sun fire v490 is supported.
> I am goign to buy one with 4 ultrsparc IV+ cpu 1.35GHz
> 
> so I ask if it runs welll wirth FreeBSD 9.1
> 
> on hte FreeBS site there is written:
> 
> The following Sun UltraSPARC systems are not tested but believed to be 
> also supported by FreeBSD:
> 
>   * Sun Fire V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and
>     8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed Ultrasparc IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)
> 
> does it mean noeone ever tried to boot FreeBSD on it ?

Not that I'm aware of. FreeBSD is known to run on V480 - which
essentially should be the same as V490 just with US-III CPUs -
and FreeBSD is known to work with US-IV+ CPUs. So it's very
likely that FreeBSD 9.1 will run on a V490 with US-IV+ CPUs
out of the box, i. e. the possibilities are good, but there are
no guarantees.

Marius