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 unsupported.
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.
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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