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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:42:34 -0500
From:      Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>
To:        Alan Lai <clai33@uwo.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC
Message-ID:  <20030220154234.GA12821@constans.gldis.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0302201004460.20926-100000@panther.uwo.ca>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0302201004460.20926-100000@panther.uwo.ca>

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Alan Lai wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a newbie to freebsd, I want to clarify something before I get into
> using it.
> 
> I plan to put freebsd5 on a sun e250, this is a pci based ultrasparc
> machine, but at the same time, this machine has a non-sun hardware, which
> is a network card thats originally for x86 machine. This card is working
> probably under solaris w/ some non-official driver, & is supported under
> linux/x86. My question is, will this card, intel fastethernet 100, or
> 3com590 work under freebsd/ultrasparc w/ some tiny tinkering?

It's unlikely, since the drivers for those cards are commented out in 
sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC. The drivers probably need work to use busdma.

> and also, can i compile freebsd's kernel like linux?

No.

> thanks
> Alan.

-- 
Jeremy Faulkner			http://www.gldis.ca

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