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Introduction

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This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's - UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes +

This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Fujitsu®'s + SPARC64® and Sun Microsystem's UltraSPARC® architectures. + Discussion of this port takes place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.

Table Of Contents

Status

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.

Hardware List

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 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).

Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on - UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes + Sun UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working systems:

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The following UltraSPARC IIIi systems are not tested but +

The following Sun UltraSPARC systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:

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Starting with 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Fujitsu SPARC64 V + are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following + known working systems:

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The following Fujitsu SPARC64 systems are not tested but believed to be + also supported by FreeBSD:

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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

Credits

The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:

FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list

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Pointers Of Interest

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