Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 13:32:11 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sunfire v440 Message-ID: <519A5E1B.703@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <519A5BFE.9090802@gmail.com> References: <51993E1C.4050301@gmail.com> <20130519211718.GK25595@uriah.heep.sax.de> <519A5BFE.9090802@gmail.com>
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On 5/20/13 1:23 PM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > I am about to buy a 4 processor ultrsparc IIIi 1,59MHz, do you think > FreeBSD 9.1 will have no problem to run ? > I mean no problem with 4 CPU number ? > > FreeBSD sparc64 page is telling it is supported... > Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in > 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE) > > my only problem now but it is with all sparc64 architectures is that 9.1 > ISO won't boot... > cannot find kernel. > > > On 5/19/13 11:17 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >> As Riccardo Veraldi wrote: >> >>> Looking on FreeBSD site it tells it is supported since FreeBSD 8.0 >>> but I ask to someone who is using FreeBSD on his V440 to confirm me >>> it's working. >> I recently got a SunFire V210 which should be fairly similar to yours. >> It's working fine. (I've got a single CPU only though.) >> >> I tried to make it less noisy, with moderate success. The trickiest >> part was to have the power supply accept a lower speed fan, because >> the PS evaluates the fan speed internally by itself with some analog >> circuitry. >> >> Unfortunately, as cool as the idea of the ALOM appears at first, with >> a standby power of ~ 15 W, you'd better power it off with a hardware >> switch while you don't need it. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Well, my SunFire V240 works just fine with two processors, running 9.1: Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #5 r249588M: Wed Apr 17 13:29:44 EDT 2013 lidl@spork.pix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64 gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD] real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 8369774592 (7982 MB) cpu0: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1503.00 MHz CPU) cpu1: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1503.00 MHz CPU) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs [...] -Kurt
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