FreeBSD/sparc64 Project
Introduction
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.
Table Of Contents
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™ 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™ 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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