FreeBSD/sparc64 Project

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This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Fujitsu’s SPARC64® and Oracle’s UltraSPARC® architectures. Discussion of this port takes place on the freebsd-sparc mailing list.

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Status

UltraSPARC is a Tier 2 architecture through FreeBSD 12.x. It is no longer supported in FreeBSD 13.0 and later.

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 hardware notes of the release you are using.

Naturetech GENIALstation 777S
Sun Blade 100
Sun Blade 150
Sun Enterprise 150
Sun Enterprise 220R
Sun Enterprise 250
Sun Enterprise 420R
Sun Enterprise 450
Sun Fire B100s (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in 8.1-RELEASE)
Sun Fire V100
Sun Fire V120
Sun Netra(T) T1 100/105
Sun Netra T1 AC200/DC200
Sun Netra t 1100
Sun Netra t 1120
Sun Netra t 1125
Sun Netra t 1400/1405
Sun Netra 120
Sun Netra X1
Sun SPARCEngine® Ultra AX1105
Sun SPARCEngine Ultra AXe
Sun SPARCEngine Ultra AXi
Sun SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp
Sun SPARCEngine CP1500
Sun Ultra(T) 1
Sun Ultra 1E
Sun Ultra 2
Sun Ultra 5
Sun Ultra 10
Sun Ultra 30
Sun Ultra 60
Sun Ultra 80
Sun Ultra 450

These 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).

Sun Enterprise 3500
Sun Enterprise 4500

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

Sun Blade 1000
Sun Blade 1500
Sun Blade 2000
Sun Blade 2500
Sun Fire 280R
Sun Fire V210
Sun Fire V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)
Sun Fire V240
Sun Fire V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)
Sun Fire V250
Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)
Sun Fire V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only, for which support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, other centerplanes might work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)
Sun Fire V880
Sun Fire V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed Ultrasparc IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)
Sun Netra 20/Netra T4

These Sun UltraSPARC systems are not tested but are believed to also be supported by FreeBSD:

Sun Fire V125
Sun Fire V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed Ultrasparc IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)

Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on Fujitsu SPARC64 V are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes these known working systems:

Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER® 250

These Fujitsu SPARC64 systems have not been tested but are believed to also be supported by FreeBSD:

Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 450
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 650
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 850

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

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