your mail: FreeBSD on UltraSPARC T1

[Daniel Rudy]

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On Thu, 5/28/15, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: your mail
 To: "Daniel Rudy" <dr2867 at pacbell.net>
 Cc: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
 Date: Thursday, May 28, 2015, 2:03 AM
 
 On 2015-May-28 01:27:47
 -0700, Daniel Rudy <dr2867 at pacbell.net>
 wrote:
 >I am seriously considering the purchase of
 a Sun Microsystems Sun
 >Fire T1000
 headless server with a UltraSPARC T1 processor.  The big
 >question that I have is that will FreeBSD
 10.1 run on this machine?
 
 No.  There is currently no support for sun4v
 on FreeBSD.  There has
 been some recent
 interest in resurrecting it (see the archives for
 this list) but nothing has landed in the tree
 yet.
 
 -- 
 Peter Jeremy

The problem is that the machine right now is a steal for what it is and I want to get it.  I have found that OpenBSD will run on it so I might go that route.