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Introduction

This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's - UltraSPARC® architecture. UltraSPARC is a - - Tier 1 architecture, and as such is fully supported by the - FreeBSD project. However, the port - is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports. Discussion of the - UltraSPARC port takes place on the + UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes + place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.

Credits
Latest News
Status
Hardware List
What Needs To Be Done
Pointers Of Interest

- -

Credits

- -

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

- -

&a.jake;
&a.tmm;
&a.obrien;
Credits
FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list
Points of Interest

Latest News

Status

25 October, 2004 : The CS4231 audio driver has - been ported from OpenBSD, - so SBus workstations equipped with sound hardware (Ultra 1E, - Ultra 2) get sound support.
9 October, 2004 : The auxio driver has been ported - from NetBSD.
10 June, 2004 : The esp driver has been imported - from NetBSD, so the - Ultra 1E and Ultra 2 machines get SCSI support now.
18 January, 2003 : The if_xl driver is - - now supported in -CURRENT.
10 December, 2002 : Daily snapshots of 5.0-CURRENT are now - available on - - ftp2.FreeBSD.org. -

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.

Blade 100
Blade 150
Enterprise 220R
Enterprise 250
Enterprise 420R
Enterprise 450
Fire V100
Fire V120
Netra™ T1 105
Netra T1 AC200/DC200
Netra t 1100
Netra t 1120
Netra t 1125
Netra t 1400/1405
Netra 120
Netra X1
SPARCEngine® Ultra Axi
SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp
Ultra 1
Ultra 1E
Ultra 2
Ultra™ 5
Ultra 10
Ultra 30
Ultra 60
Ultra 80

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.

Enterprise 3500
Enterprise 4500

The following systems are unsupported.

Any system with an UltraSPARC III or greater processor.
Ultra 1

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 us know about it.