status of freebsd on ultrasparc?

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Mon Jun 9 21:12:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote:
> I'm a little confused about the status of FreeBSD on UltraSparc.
> 
> This page says it is a fully supported Tier 1 platform:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html
> 
> However, the words "Tier 1" link directly to this page:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html
> 
> Which says that Sparc64 is only a Tier 2 "development architecture".
> 
> Which is correct?

It's Tier 2, core@ silently demoted it when updating the tier
document last February.

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> So I guess my question is this: (1) is FreeBSD an acceptable OS to run on
> this Sun box and (2) will I have any major problems building ports?
> 

Currently V210 aren't supported by FreeBSD but chances are they'll
be in 7.2.

Marius



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