Gee whiz I'd like to hack FreeBSD/sparc64.. ;)

Pyun YongHyeon yongari at kt-is.co.kr
Thu Nov 4 02:43:05 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:31:17AM -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
 > Howdy there, I've been listening in on this list,  I also listen in on
 > the NetBSD/sparc64 list (I run NetBSD on my Ultra2, FreeBSD doesn't
 > support it :/)
 > 
 > Anyways, as you can probably tell by the email address, I'm in college,
 > and I'd be interested in hacking around on FreeBSD under sparc64 (don't
 > want to toy with FreeBSD/i386, I'd be too tempted to use my production
 > server for building/testing :P)
 > 
 > Problem being, FreeBSD doesn't support the SCSI controller (IIRC) on
 > Ultra2's, so I'm wondering where I could acquire a low priced
 > Ultra5/10/anythingthatwouldwork ;)
 > 
No, FreeBSD supports U2.

daemon# devinfo
nexus0
  sbus0
    pcm0
    auxio0
    eeprom0
    zs0
      zstty0
      zstty1
    esp0
    ^^^^
    hme0
      miibus0
        nsphy0
    isp0

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2004-June/thread.html

 > I'm on campus, so the university "pays" (ok, I do really) for bandwidth,
 > electricity, and A/C, so none of that is a problem, just _getting_ the
 > machine is.
 > 
 > Anybody have an idea?
 > 
 > -R. Tyler Ballance



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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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