From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 9 14:50:02 2008
Return-Path: This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's
- UltraSPARC® architecture. UltraSPARC is a
-
- Tier 1 architecture, and as such is fully supported by the
- FreeBSD project. However, the port
- is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports. Discussion of the
- UltraSPARC port takes place on the
+ UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes
+ place on the
freebsd-sparc
mailing list. The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
- the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground: 25 October, 2004 : The CS4231 audio driver has
- been ported from OpenBSD,
- so SBus workstations equipped with sound hardware (Ultra 1E,
- Ultra 2) get sound support. 9 October, 2004 : The auxio driver has been ported
- from NetBSD. 10 June, 2004 : The esp driver has been imported
- from NetBSD, so the
- Ultra 1E and Ultra 2 machines get SCSI support now. 18 January, 2003 : The if_xl driver is
-
- now supported in -CURRENT. 10 December, 2002 : Daily snapshots of 5.0-CURRENT are now
- available on
-
- ftp2.FreeBSD.org.
- UltraSPARC is a
+
+ Tier 2 architecture, and as such is not fully supported by the
+ FreeBSD project. Although fully functional, the port
+ is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports. A summary of supported systems follows. SMP is supported on all supported
systems that contain more than 1 processor. For full details please see
the
-
+
release notes of the
release you are using. Any system not listed here that does not have an UltraSPARC III or greater
@@ -128,12 +95,26 @@
a system that is not listed here please try it, and let
us know about it. Note that newer UltraSPARC-T1® processor based systems are supported
+ by the FreeBSD/sun4v Project The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
+ the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground: To subscribe to this list, send mail to <freebsd-sparc64-subscribe@FreeBSD.org>
+ or visit mailman interface. The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
- the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground: FreeBSD/sun4v is a new
+
+ Tier 2 architecture, and as such is not yet fully supported by the
+ FreeBSD project. A summary of supported systems follows. SMP is supported on all supported
+ systems.Introduction
Table Of Contents
-
- Credits
-
- Latest News
+ Status
-
-
+ Hardware List
What Needs To Be Done
+ Credits
+
+
-
+ FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list
+
+ Pointers Of Interest
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Table Of Contents
-
- Credits
+ Status
- Hardware List
+
+ Latest News
@@ -56,24 +65,29 @@
7.0-CURRENT.
A summary of supported systems follows. SMP is supported on all supported - systems.
- - -The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind + the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:
+ + + +To subscribe to this list, send mail to <freebsd-sun4v-subscribe@FreeBSD.org> + or visit mailman interface.
+`The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD + port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these + pages are still a work in progress.
+ +The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD - port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these - pages are still a work in progress.
+The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform. That means it is +
The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a + + Tier 2 platform. That means it is not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and toolchain maintainers.
@@ -38,8 +42,11 @@
There are ISO images available for download - here. - Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded - here. +
ISO images of FreeBSD &rel.current; suitable for New-World Macs are + available for download, for details of how to obtain these see the + release announcement. Please follow instructions given here.
@@ -149,8 +155,8 @@To subscribe to this list, send mail to - freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org +
To subscribe to this list, send mail to + <freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org> or visit mailman interface.
@@ -161,6 +167,8 @@FreeBSD/pc98 is a port of FreeBSD which aims to run on the NEC PC-98x1 (pc98) architecture. The project's goal is to make FreeBSD/pc98 work @@ -16,6 +18,13 @@ Most of the kernel source is already included in the FreeBSD source tree and most of the userland utilities built from the source work fine.
+FreeBSD/pc98 is a + + Tier 1 architecture, and as such is fully supported by the + FreeBSD project.
+This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to the - MIPS.
+ MIPS® platform. Discussion of the MIPS port takes + place on the + freebsd-mips + mailing list. -MIPS is a + + Tier 3 architecture, and as such is currently regarded as experimental. + It is not supported by the FreeBSD project.
+FreeBSD/MIPS is a port of the FreeBSD operating system - to computers with MIPS R4K and beyond processors, most notably - SGI's MIPS computers.
+ to platforms based around MIPS processors.At the moment SGI's MIPS computers. Other MIPS platforms +
At the moment, several MIPS32 development boards and + SGI's MIPS64 computers are being targeted. Other MIPS platforms such as common embedded boards and non-exotic computers in - a similar configuration to those offered by SGI are expected + a similar configuration are expected to be targeted later on.
FreeBSD/MIPS is in the early stages of development, see the - project status page for information + project status page and the + MIPS wiki page + for information about currently ongoing work.
Currently FreeBSD/amd64 runs in 64-bit multiuser mode, in both +
FreeBSD/amd64 runs in 64-bit multiuser mode, in both Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor mode.
The AMD64 platform is currently a Release-Note:
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Return-Path: This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to HP/Compaq Alpha
- systems.
Note: As of FreeBSD 7.0, support for the Alpha platform will be +
Note: As of FreeBSD 7.0, support for the Alpha platform has been removed. The development of new Alpha systems has been discontinued by the hardware vendor; this combined with the widespread deployment of more mainstream 64-bit platforms, such as the AMD64 and Intel EM64T @@ -20,12 +24,11 @@ community interest. FreeBSD/alpha support will continue in maintenance mode for future FreeBSD 6.x releases.
-To subscribe to this list, send mail to <freebsd-alpha-subscribe@FreeBSD.org> + or visit mailman interface.
FreeBSD/ARM is a port of FreeBSD which aims to run - on the ARM architecture and hardware. - The project's goal is to provide support for the - architecture and hardware surrounding it.
+This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to the + ARM architecture and hardware. Discussion of the ARM port takes + place on the + freebsd-arm + mailing list.
+ +ARM is officially a + + Tier 2 architecture, as the FreeBSD project + does not provide official releases or pre-built packages for this + platform due to it primarily targeting the embedded arena. However, + FreeBSD/ARM is being actively developed and maintained, well supported, + and provides an excellent framework for building ARM-based systems.
+ +Currently FreeBSD should work on the i80321 based Intel +
FreeBSD should work on the i80321 based Intel XScale® devboards, which includes the IQ31244 and IQ80321 boards. Support is still minimal, covering only the CPU, PCI-X bus, em(4) Ethernet adapters, the UART and timer devices.
+The i80219 XScale processor is supported, as is the EP80219 + devboard.
+ +The IXP425 is supported, as is the Avila GW2348-4 devboard.
+ +The Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU/Microcontroller range is supported. + Support is provided for the Kwikbyte KB9202 devboard range, the + Hot-e HL200 devboard, and the BWCT board.
+Minimal support for the StrongARM 1100 CPU is provided, but only within the limits of what Simics emulate: CPU, UART and clock. It is theoretically possible to boot on the Assabet board, the one Simics emulates; no attempts, successful or unsuccessful, have been reported.
-Additionally, support for the Technologic Systems TS-7200 devboard + is in the works, as is support for the Atmel AT91SAM926x CPU and + the Mavell Orion ARM SoC, the Samsung S3C2XX0 range, and Cirrus + Logic EP93XX CPUs.
+ +&a.cognet; (cognet@FreeBSD.org) has written a mini-install guide for the
current FreeBSD source. It is
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Return-Path: FreeBSD 7.0, due out in late 2007, brings many new features
+ FreeBSD 7.0, released February 2008, brings many new features
and performance enhancements. With a special focus on storage
- and multiprocessing performance, FreeBSD 7.0 will ship with support
+ and multiprocessing performance, FreeBSD 7.0 shipped with support
for Sun's ZFS file system and highly scalable
multiprocessing performance. Benchmarks have shown that FreeBSD
provides twice the MySQL and PostgreSQL performance as current Linux
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@
preemption, allowing high priority kernel tasks to preempt
other kernel activity, reducing latency. This includes a
multi-threaded network stack and a multi-threaded
- virtual memory subsystem. With FreeBSD 6.x, support for a
- fully parallel VFS allows the UFS file system to run on multiple
+ virtual memory subsystem. Beginning with FreeBSD 6.x, support
+ for a fully parallel VFS allows the UFS file system to run on multiple
processors simultaneously, permitting load sharing of
CPU-intensive I/O optimization.
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Return-Path: FreeBSD/ARM is a port of FreeBSD which aims to run
- on the ARM architecture and hardware.
- The project's goal is to provide support for the
- architecture and hardware surrounding it. This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to the
+ ARM architecture and hardware. Discussion of the ARM port takes
+ place on the
+ freebsd-arm
+ mailing list. ARM is officially a
+
+ Tier 2 architecture, as the FreeBSD project
+ does not provide official releases or pre-built packages for this
+ platform due to it primarily targeting the embedded arena. However,
+ FreeBSD/ARM is being actively developed and maintained, is well supported,
+ and provides an excellent framework for building ARM-based systems. Currently FreeBSD should work on the i80321 based Intel
+ FreeBSD should work on the i80321 based Intel XScale®
devboards, which includes the IQ31244 and IQ80321 boards.
Support is still minimal, covering only the CPU, PCI-X bus,
em(4) Ethernet adapters, the UART and timer devices. The i80219 XScale processor is supported, as is the EP80219
+ devboard. The IXP425 is supported, as is the Avila GW2348-4 devboard. The Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU/Microcontroller range is supported.
+ Support is provided for the Kwikbyte KB9202 devboard range, the
+ BWCT board and the Hot-e HL200 thin client device. Minimal support for the StrongARM 1100 CPU is provided, but
only within the limits of what Simics emulate: CPU, UART and
clock. It is theoretically possible to boot on the Assabet board,
the one Simics emulates; no attempts, successful or unsuccessful,
have been reported. Additionally, support for the Technologic Systems TS-7200 devboard
+ is in the works, as is support for the Atmel AT91SAM926x CPU and
+ the Mavell Orion ARM SoC, the Samsung S3C2XX0 range, and Cirrus
+ Logic EP93XX CPUs. &a.cognet; (cognet@FreeBSD.org) has written a mini-install guide for the
current FreeBSD source. It is
From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 9 19:38:59 2008
Return-Path: FreeBSD 7.0 also includes the reference implementation of SCTP, so is
+ an ideal platform for telephony and other data streaming applications. FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or
+ FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server,
+ mail server or
Usenet news relay with included software. Using the included SAMBA
software you can even share filesystems or printers with your Microsoft®
Windows® machines and, with the supplied PCNFS authentication daemon,
you can support machines running PC/NFS. FreeBSD also supports
- Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an optional commercial package),
+ Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an
+ optional commercial package),
making it a true "Intranet" networking solution. FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the Anonymous FTP service
Introduction
- FreeBSD/ARM Hardware Notes
+ Table Of Contents
+
+
+
+
+ Status
+
+ FreeBSD/ARM Hardware Notes
- What Needs To Be Done
+ What Needs To Be Done
- FreeBSD/ARM Related Links
+ FreeBSD/ARM Related Links
- Mini-Install guide
+ Mini-Install guide
FreeBSD supports standard TCP/IP
protocols.
@@ -20,11 +23,15 @@
to
+
-
The FreeBSD ports collection @@ -111,8 +123,7 @@ protect them from outside attack.
Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption - and secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to export - restrictions).
+ and secure RPC facilities are also available. + hub.FreeBSD.org, a quad core 2.2GHz AMD64 system with 3072 + megabytes of RAM and about 400 gigabytes disk space. Inbound mail + is buffered by mx1.FreeBSD.org and outbound mail relayed via + mx2.FreeBSD.org, both are dual 3.06 GHz Xeon systems with 1024 + megabytes of RAM and 80 gigabytes of disk.Naturally, these systems all run FreeBSD. The hardware and network @@ -43,11 +42,6 @@ Indexing of these pages and the mailing list archive are provided by freewais-sf, a derivative of the CNIDR freewais.
-The - Analog - web statistics package is used to provide - these statistics on web server usage.
-You can (and are encouraged to) mirror the FreeBSD web pages on www.FreeBSD.org.
-- Usage statistics for this server are updated daily.
- FreeBSD Internal Home &footer; --- internalabout.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 18:20:02 2008 Return-Path:You can learn more about the FreeBSD WWW server, including -the machine, the software, mirroring the FreeBSD web pages, and -usage statistics.
- -Here is a list of various -FreeBSD Statistics -such as web and FTP traffic, and release usage by release version.
+the machine, the software and mirroring the FreeBSD web pages. &footer; --- internalinternal.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 19:40:01 2008 Return-Path: