status of freebsd on ultrasparc?

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Joachim Rosenfeld wrote:
| I'm a little confused about the status of FreeBSD on UltraSparc.
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| This page says it is a fully supported Tier 1 platform:
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|     http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html
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| However, the words "Tier 1" link directly to this page:
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html
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| Which says that Sparc64 is only a Tier 2 "development architecture".
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| Which is correct?

The former. Sparc64 is definitely Tier 1...
... at least for some more time... :'(


| I am considering running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire V210 UltaSparc system. My
| whole reason for wanting to put FreeBSD on this box (which currently
| runs Solaris 10) is to run bind and build ports.

I have no experience with Sun Fire's. The HW list on the page cited
above only lists 100s and 120s as supported models. I hope it's just
because it hasn't been updated for a while..

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| Joe


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