FreeBSD on sun4m

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Mon Aug 9 20:14:12 PDT 2004


Matt Emmerton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just picked up a sun4m (SparcStation 20) and while I could install
> {Net,Open}BSD on it, I'd like to use it to help out the FreeBSD project if I
> could.
> 
> I looked at the status page for the FreeBSD/Sparc project
> (http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/) which claims that both
> 32-bit and 64-bit Sparc machine are supported, but that information is a bit
> out of date.
> 
> Can someone point me to some updated status and give me a nudge in the right
> direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Matt Emmerton
> 

The FreeBSD sparc64 port only support he sun4u architecture.  The URL
that you mention doesn't seem to be terribly current.

Scott


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