Certification Steps for a SUN Sunfire X4100 under the amd-64 Platform

[Vivek Khera]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Albert Levi Ball wrote:

>
> Currently I have been donated a sunfire x4100 for network support
> tasking and was going to load FreeBSD 6.0 on it with the amd-64  
> build. I
> would like to know the steps involved on getting this platform  
> certified

What mean you by 'certified'?

Mostly people are insterested in if it boots and if all the devices  
work.  The answer to those are yes and no, respectively.

The built-in disk controller doesn't work under any FreeBSD version.   
The rest of the devices on the box appear to work.

Getting a supported external RAID controller leaves you limited choices.