From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Feb 20 7:42:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAF737B405; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7494400F; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (gldisater@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1KFgYgb013138; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:42:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: (from gldisater@localhost) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h1KFgYHo013137; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:42:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:42:34 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner To: Alan Lai Cc: questions@freebsd.org, sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC Message-ID: <20030220154234.GA12821@constans.gldis.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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