FreeBSD on an Ultra2?
Mykel
Mykel at mWare.ca
Thu Jun 10 20:40:26 GMT 2004
John Baldwin wrote:
>On Thursday 10 June 2004 03:40 pm, Mykel wrote:
>
>
>>Will Andrews wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I think so, since the SCSI controller isn't supported at all (as
>>>>I understand the docs).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Actually, this changed very recently with Scott's import of the
>>>esp(4) driver, ported from NetBSD.
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>
>>>
>>This /sounds/ encouraging to me, but does this just solve the
>>pre-install boot situation or the installation too?
>>
>>Can you point me at an appropriate ISO with this fix? (or tell me which
>>version to look for)
>>
>>
>
>Someone will have to build an ISO as it was just committed yesterday, but with
>the driver you won't need to netboot at all. Ken, do you feel like rolling a
>snapshot release for sparc64 and sticking it on ftp-master? You might want
>to coordinate with scottl@ in case he thinks he can fix the tagging
>corruption problem in the next couple of days.
>
>
>
That would just go beyond ubercool!
As a thanks... can I contribute my mediocre webskillz to
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html ?
Myke
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