Sparc T2000 support

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Thu Jan 31 14:31:27 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:56:47PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> 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).
> >
My company is disposing of several T200 servers.  I may be able to
have them donated but don't know whom to contact.


-- 
Regards,
Doug


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