Sparc T2000 support

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 22:20:32 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Marius Strobl <marius at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:03:16AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I'd be interested in one of these.
Ha ha ha. I'm sure you would.
>
> Marius
>
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