Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 19:23:10 +0200 From: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sunfire v440 Message-ID: <519A5BFE.9090802@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130519211718.GK25595@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <51993E1C.4050301@gmail.com> <20130519211718.GK25595@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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I am about to buy a 4 processor ultrsparc IIIi 1,59MHz, do you think FreeBSD 9.1 will have no problem to run ? I mean no problem with 4 CPU number ? FreeBSD sparc64 page is telling it is supported... Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE) my only problem now but it is with all sparc64 architectures is that 9.1 ISO won't boot... cannot find kernel. On 5/19/13 11:17 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > >> Looking on FreeBSD site it tells it is supported since FreeBSD 8.0 >> but I ask to someone who is using FreeBSD on his V440 to confirm me >> it's working. > I recently got a SunFire V210 which should be fairly similar to yours. > It's working fine. (I've got a single CPU only though.) > > I tried to make it less noisy, with moderate success. The trickiest > part was to have the power supply accept a lower speed fan, because > the PS evaluates the fan speed internally by itself with some analog > circuitry. > > Unfortunately, as cool as the idea of the ALOM appears at first, with > a standby power of ~ 15 W, you'd better power it off with a hardware > switch while you don't need it.
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