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This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.
UltraSPARC is a Tier 2 architecture, and as such is not fully supported by the FreeBSD project. Although fully functional, the port is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports.
A summary of supported systems follows. SMP is supported on all supported systems that contain more than 1 processor. For full details please see the release notes of the release you are using.
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. These systems may work with the esp - driver imported from NetBSD.
+The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In + particular the fibre channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not + supported. However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI controller + supported by the esp(4) driver (Sun ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI + and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).
The following systems are unsupported.
+Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on + UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes + the following known working systems:
Any system not listed here that does not have an UltraSPARC III or greater - processor is expected to work, but may not have been tested. If you have - a system that is not listed here please try it, and let +
The following UltraSPARC IIIi systems are not tested but + believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:
+ +If you have a system that is not listed here please try it, and let us know about it.
Note that newer UltraSPARC-T1® processor based systems are supported by the FreeBSD/sun4v Project
The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:
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