Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:19:00 +0100 From: Kvedulv / Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de> To: "Steven C. Peterson" <scp@zm.mainstream.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bailing on Solaris? Message-ID: <20110127121900.GA820@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> In-Reply-To: <61100F80-D31C-4331-808F-F2DE87FD5364@zm.mainstream.net> References: <mailman.0.1295994058.43055.freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> <Pine.SOC.4.64.1101251726530.11805@blueman> <013601cbbce4$5a103c90$0e30b5b0$@net> <61100F80-D31C-4331-808F-F2DE87FD5364@zm.mainstream.net>
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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
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