additional sparc64 machines supported

[Craig Butler]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:27 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> FYI, the current set of snapshots [1] additionally supports the following
> machines:
> 
> o Fujitsu (Siemens) PRIMEPOWER 250 (likely also 450, 650 and 850)
> o Sun Fire B100s server blades (for the Sun Fire B1600 platform; previously
>   it was impossible to use the on-board NICs thus these machines were pretty
>   much useless with FreeBSD)
> o Sun Fire V890 (likely also V490, so far both only with non-mixed US-IV/IV+
>   CPU-configurations though due to unsolved timekeeping problems; performance
>   with US-IV+ CPUs not yet isn't were it should be though)
> 
> Also problems with Schizo version 7 bridges (actually the firmware of these
> machines) triggering panics during boot are solved in these snapshots.
> 
> Marius
> 
> [1]:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201005-sparc64-disc1.iso
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-8.1-PRERELEASE-201005-sparc64-disc1.iso
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-7.3-STABLE-201005-sparc64-disc1.iso
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Brilliant Marius, thank you to you and the rest of the sparc64 team...
amazing progress.  Hopefully I'll be able to get hold of some ultrasparc
III and IV machines soon...

Cheers

Craig B