Status of SPARC64 port?

[Scheidell at secnap.com]

thanks all.
again, sometimes its hard to know if the web docs are out of date, and hoping that someone in a wide audience would have tried it.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Burkholder [mailto:jake at locore.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:56 PM
> To: Michael Scheidell
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Status of SPARC64 port?
> 
> 
> Apparently, On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:28:15AM -0400,
> 	Michael Scheidell said words to the effect of;
> 
> > I was looking at the Sparc 64 4.7 or 4.8 port, wondering if 
> its in any state
> > to put on my Solaris v100.
> > Just need the basics, eide, network, kbm,mouse, graphics (x).
> > 
> > A bonus would be support for the lom (light out management) 
> features and the
> > flash card.
> > 
> > Reason for change is I HOPE that the math (ssl) performance 
> is better on
> > FBSD, as well as I am just tired of keeping track of
> > 
> /opt/bin,/usr/opt/bin,/usr/bin//spare/user/opt/bin/,/opt/sfw 
> and the mired
> > of other paths.
> > 
> > It looks like mixed message there, with one page saying it 
> supports the
> > v100, another saying it does yet.
> > 
> > And if nor FBSD, then which one?  OpenBSD, NetBSD?
> > Anyone have any performance tests?
> 
> 5.0-RELEASE should install on that machine, but if you want 
> to use it for
> more than a headless box we're probably not ready for you 
> yet.  The console
> support is still rudimentary at best, you want to be using a 
> serial console
> if at all possible.
> 
> And yes, as Julian pointed (hi Julian), its best to ask on 
> the sparc64 list.
> 
> Jake
> 
>