Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:12:08 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of freebsd on ultrasparc? Message-ID: <20080609211208.GA66541@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70806051341x95eb814j6222c04dbfd7fb2d@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e5cf6a70806051341x95eb814j6222c04dbfd7fb2d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: > I'm a little confused about the status of FreeBSD on UltraSparc. > > This page says it is a fully supported Tier 1 platform: > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html > > However, the words "Tier 1" link directly to this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html > > Which says that Sparc64 is only a Tier 2 "development architecture". > > Which is correct? It's Tier 2, core@ silently demoted it when updating the tier document last February. > > > I am considering running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire V210 UltaSparc system. My > whole reason for wanting to put FreeBSD on this box (which currently > runs Solaris 10) is to run bind and build ports. > > So I guess my question is this: (1) is FreeBSD an acceptable OS to run on > this Sun box and (2) will I have any major problems building ports? > Currently V210 aren't supported by FreeBSD but chances are they'll be in 7.2. Marius
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