Sun Fire 280R questions.

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Adam K. wrote:
| It looks like I may be able to get one of these boxes relatively cheaply,
| and had a few questions.
|
| Anything special about getting FreeBSD onto it? There doesn't seem to be a
| FreeBSD/Sparc64-specific install document, at least that I was able to
find.
| Any of the built-in hardware not supported, and thus needs to be
substituted
| with a PCI card?

I have just installed a Sun Fire280R with FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. It works
just fine, apart from the Cassini NIC (vendor=0x108e device=0xabba).
This isn't supported yet, see the following thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2009-May/006362.html

Have fun :)

| Thanks
|  -Adam

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