From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 26 1:55: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E13537B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C0E343E4A for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 29002 invoked by uid 1031); 26 Sep 2002 08:51:21 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:51:21 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Mark Valentine Cc: Josef Karthauser , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spark 5. Message-ID: <20020926085121.GB26352@spc.org> References: <200209260217.g8Q2HOwT019309@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200209260217.g8Q2HOwT019309@dotar.thuvia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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