FreeBSD is now self-hosting on the UltraSPARC T1

Kip Macy kip.macy at gmail.com
Sun May 21 18:30:25 PDT 2006


The fibre channel is a borrowed qlogic card. At the moment it hangs
late in boot when I enable isp. The LSI SAS card uses the MPT driver
which isn't big-endian safe yet. So information isn't the problem in
this case.

 -Kip


> I'm wondering, Sun provided the machine along with documentation to
> enable FreeBSD to run on it. But booting is one thing, making use of
> all of the machine is another:
> pci9: <mass storage, ATA> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
> pci10: <serial bus, Fibre Channel> at device 1.0 (no driver attached)
> pci10: <mass storage, SCSI> at device 2.0 (no driver attached)
>
> Did they provide documentation for IDE, SCSI, RAID and Fibre
> controllers the machine has?
> Not to bite the hand of Sun but just wondering if they gave just a
> hand or the whole arm ;-)
>
> PS: Good job!
> --
> Joao Barros
>


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