status of freebsd on ultrasparc?

Gavin Atkinson gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Mon Jun 9 22:46:50 UTC 2008


On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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.

This is now updated.

Gavin


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