From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 12:19:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1CD1065670 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:19:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmoll@darkthrone.kvedulv.de) Received: from darkthrone.kvedulv.de (darkthrone.kvedulv.de [IPv6:2001:1578:400:101::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4F78FC0C for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by darkthrone.kvedulv.de (Postfix, from userid 666) id C0A6F1CC78; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:19:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:19:00 +0100 From: Kvedulv / Michael Moll To: "Steven C. Peterson" Message-ID: <20110127121900.GA820@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> References: <013601cbbce4$5a103c90$0e30b5b0$@net> <61100F80-D31C-4331-808F-F2DE87FD5364@zm.mainstream.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <61100F80-D31C-4331-808F-F2DE87FD5364@zm.mainstream.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bailing on Solaris? 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: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:19:03 -0000 Hi, On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:04:13PM -0500, Steven C. Peterson wrote: > We currently run on Fujitsu Sparc 64-v based systems, PrimePower 650s, > 850 and 2500 machines. FreeBSD runs very well here on a Primepower 250 with two SPARC64-Vs (1.35 GHz). I think I'm the only one(?) up to now with FreeBSD on such CPUs, so this is a bit a shot in the dark: I'm sure it will run as-is on 450s as these are quite the same as the 250. 650s and 850s are a little more different, but not really much. As already recommended - just give it a try. Chances are that a recent release will just work out of the box. If not, the required changes are probably very small. 2500s are another category. I never touched one of these, but would expect that more development is necessary to get these off the ground. > Primarily these machines run large java web apps (tomcat) and > databases (MySQL, and very little oracle) MySQL is no problem, Oracle will not work - there's no Solaris syscall translation like linuxulator. Java is at the moment not available for sparc64, but there has been some work in the past: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2009-December/006795.html Back then there was almost no reaction, but a broader user base for FreeBSD on sparc64 presumably would be helpful and could get things going again. Best Regards -- Michael Moll