7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-sparc64Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Jeremy Faulkner | Feb 20, 2003 7:42 am | |
| Alan Lai | Feb 20, 2003 8:57 am | |
| Maxime Henrion | Feb 20, 2003 9:06 am | |
| Matthew N. Dodd | Feb 22, 2003 6:45 pm | |
| Maxime Henrion | Feb 23, 2003 4:22 am | |
| Matthew N. Dodd | Feb 23, 2003 4:42 am | |
| Maxime Henrion | Feb 23, 2003 4:49 am |
| Subject: | Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Alan Lai (cla...@uwo.ca) | |
| Date: | Feb 20, 2003 8:57:48 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-sparc64 | |
freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? if so, whats the work that i have to do? please advice
is the freebsd-sparc kernel not open source? i cannot compile/custimize it myself?
Thank you very much Alan
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Alan Lai wrote:
Hello,
I am a newbie to freebsd, I want to clarify something before I get into using it.
I plan to put freebsd5 on a sun e250, this is a pci based ultrasparc machine, but at the same time, this machine has a non-sun hardware, which is a network card thats originally for x86 machine. This card is working probably under solaris w/ some non-official driver, & is supported under linux/x86. My question is, will this card, intel fastethernet 100, or 3com590 work under freebsd/ultrasparc w/ some tiny tinkering?
It's unlikely, since the drivers for those cards are commented out in sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC. The drivers probably need work to use busdma.
and also, can i compile freebsd's kernel like linux?
No.
thanks Alan.
-- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca
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