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<sect1>
<title>Supported Systems</title>
<para>Additions, corrections and constructive criticism are
invited. In particular, information on system quirks is more than
welcome.</para>
<sect2>
<title>Overview</title>
<para>This document tries to provide a starting point for those
who want to run &os; on an &arch.print;-based machine. It is
aimed at providing background information on the various
hardware designs. It is not a replacement for the systems
manuals.</para>
<para>The information is structured as follows:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>General hardware requirements to run &os; on &arch;.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>System specific information for each of the
systems/boards supported by &os;.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Information on expansion boards for &os;,
including things that differ from what is in the generic
supported hardware list.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>In general, what do you need to run &os; on a &arch;</title>
<para>&os;/&arch; requires an &arch.print; system. Currently, the
newer PCI-based systems are supported better than the older SBus
based systems. The following systems are known to work to
varying degrees:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Ultra 1 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Ultra 2 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Ultra 5 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Ultra 10 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Ultra 30 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Ultra 60 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Blade 100 workstations</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Netra t1 series servers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Enterprise 220R servers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Enterprise 250 servers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sun Enterprise 420R servers</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Ultra 80 and Blade 1000 are expected to work, maybe
with minor modifications. SMP is supported on Ultra 2 and 60
workstations and Enterprise 220R, 250 and 420R servers.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>System-specific information</title>
<para>Below is an overview of the &arch.print; hardware that &os;
runs on. The GENERIC kernel configuration file in
<filename>/sys/&arch;/conf/GENERIC</filename> may contain
additional information about supported devices.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Ultra 1</title>
<para>UltraSPARC Ultra1-family systems have not been thoroughly
tested with FreeBSD. These systems are not very well
supported, but it is possible to install FreeBSD onto an
Ultra-1e with a <devicename>hme</devicename> Ethernet
interface.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Ultra 2</title>
<para>UltraSPARC Ultra2-family systems include the following
hardware:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>1 or 2 UltraSPARC II CPUs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in Ethernet
(<devicename>hme</devicename> compatible)
interface</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>4 SBus slots</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>1 UPA Slot</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Serial and Parallel ports</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>16-bit audio</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Ultra 5/10</title>
<para>UltraSPARC Ultra5/10-family systems include the following
hardware:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>UltraSPARC IIi CPU</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Three PCI busses</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in Ethernet
(<devicename>hme</devicename> compatible)
interface</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in PCI-IDE controller &perforce;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Two PC-AT style `com' ports for the mouse and keyboard</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Floppy driver controller</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Siemens SAB82532 dual-channel serial ports for ttya and ttyb</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>One CS4231 audio device</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>One PC-AT style parallel port</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sun `ffb' frame buffer (Ultra10 only)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>EBus (Sun proprietary bus for slow
devices)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Ultra 60</title>
<para>Sun Ultra 60 workstations include the following hardware:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>1 or 2 UltraSPARC II CPUs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>4 PCI slots</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>2 UPA slots</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&man.sym.4;-based UltraSCSI
controller</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in Ethernet
(<devicename>hme</devicename> compatible)
interface</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Serial and Parallel ports</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>16-bit audio</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>EBus (Sun proprietary bus for slow
devices)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Blade 100</title>
<para>Sun Blade 100 workstations include the following hardware:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>UltraSPARC IIe CPU</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Three PCI busses</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in Ethernet
(<devicename>gem</devicename> compatible)
interface</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Two USB ports &unsupported;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Two Firewire ports &unsupported;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in PCI-IDE controller &perforce;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Two PC-AT style `com' ports for the mouse and keyboard</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Floppy driver controller</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>&man.sio.4; supported serial ports for ttya
and ttyb</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>One CS4231 audio device</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>One PC-AT style parallel port</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Built-in PGX64 (ATI)
graphics</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>EBus (Sun proprietary bus for slow
devices)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ISA bus</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Supported Hardware Overview</title>
<para>A word of caution: the installed base for &os;/&arch; is not
nearly as large as for &os;/Intel. This means that the enormous
variation of PCI/ISA expansion cards out there has much less
chance of having been tested on &arch; than on Intel. This is
not to imply they are doomed to fail, just that the chance of
running into something never tested before is much higher.
<filename>GENERIC</filename> contains things that are known to
work on &arch; only.</para>
<para>The PCI bus is fully supported. SBus support is limited,
but is reported to work well enough to netboot an SBus-based
Ultra 2 workstation.</para>
<para>1.44 Mbyte floppy drives are <emphasis>not</emphasis> yet
supported.</para>
<para>ATA and ATAPI (IDE) devices are supported via the &man.ata.4;
driver framework. &perforce;</para>
<para>There is full SCSI support via the CAM layer. However, only
NCR/Symbios cards are currently working. Adaptec 2940x (AIC
7xxx chip-based) and &man.isp.4; cards should be supported soon.
Be aware that SCSI cards must contain Sun FCODE in order to use
them as a boot device from OpenBoot.</para>
<para>If you want to boot your sparc64 over the Ethernet you will
obviously need an Ethernet card that the OpenBoot console
recognizes.</para>
<para><devicename>hme</devicename>, <devicename>gem</devicename>,
and <devicename>eri</devicename> based network devices.</para>
<para>The <quote>PC standard</quote> serial ports found on most
newer Sun workstations are supported.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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