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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:04:17 +0100
From:      Denis Saget <geodni@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun Fire V880 support
Message-ID:  <4EC8DEB1.4080303@free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20111119134005.GA40335@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <4EC42C6E.9070006@free.fr> <20111119134005.GA40335@alchemy.franken.de>

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Thanks, I wil give a try when I will really get the server.

Do you have any pointer to make it available to FreeBSD team for 
development or build?

I have some available storage on my StorEdge 2x3510 FAC-AL (24x300GB) I 
could dedicated a part to this and an ssh access to the server.

Denis

On 19.11.2011 14:40, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Denis Saget wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has anyone encountered recent problems with Sun Fire V880 under FreeBSD
>> ? Does it play well ?
>>
>> I have the possibility to get 2 of this, populated with 2 system board
>> each. I think I would use one only with 4 system boards. I could make it
>> available for FreeBSD development if anyone is interested.
>>
> They should work just fine, the official FreeBSD/sparc64 are also built
> on V880 for example. I'd suggest to use 9.0 (ideally RC3 or later once
> it's out) instead of 8.2 as lots of improvements and fixes went in since
> the latter was released.
>
> Marius
>
>




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