Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

[Eirik Øverby]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 23:07, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based
>> workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems
>> (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc?
>
> I've not used any of these but:
> 1) The Ultra 25 is UltraSPARC IIIi based.  This CPU is not supported
>   by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation.

I thought this was resolved a while back? In any case, OpenBSD has had  
USiii support for some time now. I could get my hands on some USiii  
(and possibly IV) hardware to make available if...... ;)

/Eirik

> 2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and
>   U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported,
>   at least on those Linuxes.
>
> -- 
> Peter Jeremy
> Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to  
> implement
> an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed  
> behaviour.