Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:58:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Lai <clai33@uwo.ca> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0302201155230.6512-100000@panther.uwo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030220154234.GA12821@constans.gldis.ca>
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freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? if so, whats the work that i have to do? please advice is the freebsd-sparc kernel not open source? i cannot compile/custimize it myself? Thank you very much Alan On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > 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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