Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:20:25 -0500 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc T2000 support Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOt%2BQBQ4_DrSLAW8g%2BUZhCn4UNa3WNGzxHUTLo=Nrg_0OQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130131164940.GA85775@alchemy.franken.de> References: <CALtLxXBz0c6GriqUnVA9DdKeaP1sh8buV-Tfr07nvKBxNpKnJg@mail.gmail.com> <20130131071044.GN29105@server.rulingia.com> <CADGWnjVbHXeR5qM2Ep%2BvgvkQQQQ81RfQCEqsM=0u-FTh5rTeog@mail.gmail.com> <20130131140316.GA1574@lystra.neenah.na.plexus.com> <20130131164940.GA85775@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:03:16AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:56:47PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:
>> > > On 2013-Jan-30 15:47:34 -0500, Ira Downing <dml337ira@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >>Any hope for Sparc T2000 support. These systems are going to waste if I'm
>> > >>locked into installing Solaris 10.
>> > >
>> > > There's currently no sun4v support in FreeBSD because no-one has the
>> > > complete {motivation, skill, time} set.
>> >
>> > I guess, no developer has access to the required sun4v hardware
>> > at the moment, and buying one privately just for fun and coding
>> > is way above budget.
>> >
>> > > As alternatives to Sol10, you could try NetBSD or one of the OpenSolaris
>> > > forks (eg Illumos).
>> > >
>> My company is disposing of several T200 servers. I may be able to
>> have them donated but don't know whom to contact.
>>
>
> I'd be interested in one of these.
Ha ha ha. I'm sure you would.
>
> Marius
>
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