Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others
On Apr 11, 2008, at 23:07, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? I've not used any of these but: 1) The Ultra 25 is UltraSPARC IIIi based. This CPU is not supported by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation. I thought this was resolved a while back? In any case, OpenBSD has had USiii support for some time now. I could get my hands on some USiii (and possibly IV) hardware to make available if.. ;) /Eirik 2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported, at least on those Linuxes. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others
Ivan Voras wrote, on 4/11/2008 2:57 AM: Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? I haven't, but this fellow appears to have tried 6.1-R: http://jc.ngo.org.uk/blog/2006/09/02/day-55-of-60-installing-freebsd-on-a-sun-ultra-40/ Here's his dmesg: http://jc.ngo.org.uk/~nik/dmesg.boot Apparently, legacy USB support should be disabled in the BIOS for the including keyboard to work properly. Royce -- Royce D. Williams - http://royce.ws/ When trouble is solved before it forms, who calls that clever?-Sun Tzu ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? I've not used any of these but: 1) The Ultra 25 is UltraSPARC IIIi based. This CPU is not supported by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation. 2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported, at least on those Linuxes. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpUHUzuOB6cQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others
2008/4/11 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? I've not used any of these but: 1) The Ultra 25 is UltraSPARC IIIi based. This CPU is not supported by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation. Thanks, then it was included by mistake - I'm not interested in SPARC-based variants. 2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported, at least on those Linuxes. Ok. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
