Hi, 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? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20080411/40b18f53/signature.pgp
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
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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20080411/c6626466/attachment.pgp