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FreeBSD/sparc64 Project

Introduction

This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.

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Status

UltraSPARC is a Tier 2 architecture, and as such is not fully supported by the FreeBSD project. Although fully functional, the port is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports.

Hardware List

A summary of supported systems follows. SMP is supported on all supported systems that contain more than 1 processor. For full details please see the release notes of the release you are using.

  • Blade 100
  • Blade 150
  • Enterprise 100
  • Enterprise 220R
  • Enterprise 250
  • Enterprise 420R
  • Enterprise 450
  • Fire V100
  • Fire V120
  • Netra™ T1 105
  • Netra T1 AC200/DC200
  • Netra t 1100
  • Netra t 1120
  • Netra t 1125
  • Netra t 1400/1405
  • Netra 120
  • Netra X1
  • SPARCEngine® Ultra AX1105
  • SPARCEngine® Ultra AXe
  • SPARCEngine® Ultra AXi
  • SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp
  • Ultra 1
  • Ultra 1E
  • Ultra 2
  • Ultra™ 5
  • Ultra 10
  • Ultra 30
  • Ultra 60
  • Ultra 80
  • Ultra 450

The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In particular the fibre channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not supported. However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI controller supported by the esp(4) driver (Sun ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).

  • Enterprise 3500
  • Enterprise 4500

Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working systems:

  • Blade 1000
  • Blade 1500
  • Blade 2000
  • Fire 280R
  • Fire V210
  • Fire V440 (except for the on-board NICs)
  • Fire V880
  • Netra 20/Netra T4

The following UltraSPARC IIIi systems are not tested but believed to be also supported by FreeBSD:

  • Fire V125
  • Fire V240

If you have a system that is not listed here please try it, and let us know about it.

Note that newer UltraSPARC-T1® processor based systems are supported by the FreeBSD/sun4v Project

Credits

The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:

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