Does FreeBSD run on 32-bit sparcs (V8)?

Frank Wißmann frank.wissmann41 at web.de
Sat May 8 19:58:19 UTC 2010


Yuri schrieb:
> When I look at FreeBSD distribution I only see sparc64 (which I guess 
> implies V9).
> When I look at LLVM compiler sources they define V8 as a 32-bit target 
> and V9 as 64-bit target.
> Does this mean that FreeBSD can only run on V9 and that's what should be 
> assumed, and V8 is skipped for FreeBSD?
> Just want to confirm my conclusions.
> 
> Yuri
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You are right. See

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html

for more information.

Greetings Frank

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