Sparc T2000 support

C. P. Ghost cpghost at cordula.ws
Thu Jan 31 13:56:54 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2013-Jan-30 15:47:34 -0500, Ira Downing <dml337ira at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Any hope for Sparc T2000 support. These systems are going to waste if I'm
>>locked into installing Solaris 10.
>
> There's currently no sun4v support in FreeBSD because no-one has the
> complete {motivation, skill, time} set.

I guess, no developer has access to the required sun4v hardware
at the moment, and buying one privately just for fun and coding
is way above budget.

> As alternatives to Sol10, you could try NetBSD or one of the OpenSolaris
> forks (eg Illumos).
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy

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