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