Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:51:21 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spark 5.
Message-ID:  <20020926085121.GB26352@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209260217.g8Q2HOwT019309@dotar.thuvia.org>
References:  <mailpost.1032995630.14658@thuvia.demon.co.uk> <200209260217.g8Q2HOwT019309@dotar.thuvia.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:17:24AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
> > Do we run on Spark 5?  Someone's selling one and a monitor for 300 UK
> > pounds.  Is it worth getting hold of?
> 
> Not for FreeBSD (sun4u only, I believe); SPARC 5 is sun4m (32-bit only).

I concur. The SPARC port is for sun4u only. Unless you meant you were up for
the challenge of bootstrapping FreeBSD on sun4m (or even sun4c). ;-)

> £300 is expensive - a 170MHz SPARCstation 5 goes for £75 and up on eBay
> in the UK (without monitor), and I think a monitor will go for about £40.

I wouldn't bother with the monitor, because such things are huge, fixed
frequency thus don't work with anything else. When the PROM code detects
that no keyboard is plugged in, it should default to using ttya as a console.

If only PCs did this... one day!

> The Ultra 5 is more expensive and faster, but it's PC class, not a real
> Sun.

Agreed. Possibly one of the nastiest models Sun brought out.

BMS

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020926085121.GB26352>