From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 15:44:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C88016A524; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:44:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (mail-gw4.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B479743D46; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:44:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9NFiBks016591; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:44:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9NFiBqf014845; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:44:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k9NFiBxK014844; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:44:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Alexandre Vieira In-Reply-To: <755cb9fc0610230745h3e3aa0d8y920d07e90d43eee6@mail.gmail.com> References: <755cb9fc0610230745h3e3aa0d8y920d07e90d43eee6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:44:10 +0100 Message-Id: <1161618250.13630.40.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunFire V210/V240 (UltraSparc IIIi) and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:44:17 -0000 On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 15:45 +0100, Alexandre Vieira wrote: > Hello folks, > > Reading trough 6.1 hardware notes for the sparc64 port I can see that any > Ultrasparc III system is not supported. I have a bunch of these laying > around and would like to know if there is any usability in these systems > with freebsd. I've seen some reports of people bashing these V210/V240 and > would like to know if anyone tried to do anything with this. There's an effort to get a Host-PCI bridge (Schizo/Tomatillo) driver working, but it's in very early days and may not ever fully materialise as there exists no documentation on the chipset so all that is available are Linux and OpenBSD driver source code, neither of which is particularly well documented or easy to follow. I currently have no spare test hardware, but hope to start hacking away again at some point in the future. But, as I say, don't get your hopes up. Gavin