Sun Fire X4100, Sun Fire X4200, or Sun Fire X2100

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-Oct-14 16:29:46 +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Anyone tried and successfully used the new Sun servers, Sun Fire X4100, Sun
>> Fire X4200, or Sun Fire X2100, with FreeBSD-5.x?
>
> According to http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sparc.html
>   The following systems are unsupported.
>     * Any system with an UltraSPARC III or greater processor.
> so I'd say it won't work.  (Google for openbsd+ultrasparc for background).
>
>

Those Systems are Opteron-based Systems, Codename "Galaxy" from SUN.

As they are brand-new, and some of the early demonstration systems also 
shipped without CD/DVD-ROM, not many of them have been tested with 
FreeBSD.

I hope that we get some of them in the next weeks, with some luck with 
DVD, so that I can have some short test...

HTH
Olaf


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