New sparc64 5.2-BETA ISO images available

[Doug White]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> > Would these happen to support my ``red-dot'' ultra 1? If not, how can I
> > help get support for it?
>
> The hardware list still says "no".  The most effective way to get
> support added would be to sponsor a developer to do the work.  If
> there are a group of people and/or companies who would like to run
> FreeBSD on ultra 1 machines and can each kick in, this might not be so
> bad.

The big killer is still the missing scsi driver.  I don't think we'll see
any progress on that until 5.2 is out the door.  In the meantime if you
have a U1E then you can netboot it.

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