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This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT on the UltraSPARC hardware platform (also referred to as FreeBSD/sparc64 5.0-CURRENT). It lists devices known to work on this platform, as well as some notes on boot-time kernel customization that may be useful when attempting to configure support for new devices.
Note: This document includes information specific to the UltraSPARC hardware platform. Versions of the hardware compatibility notes for other architectures will differ in some details.
This section describes the systems currently known to be supported by FreeBSD on the UltraSPARC platform. For background information on the various hardware designs see the Sun System Handbook.
SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.
If you have a system that is not listed here it may work but has not been tested. If so, please try it and let us know about it.
The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD.
Blade 100
Enterprise 220R
Enterprise 250
Enterprise 420R
Fire V100
Fire V120
Netra t1 105
Netra T1 AC200/DC200
Netra t 1100
Netra t 1120
Netra t 1125
Netra t 1400/1405
Netra 120
Netra X1
SPARCEngine Ultra AXi
SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp
Ultra 5
Ultra 10
Ultra 30
Ultra 60
Ultra 80
The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In particular the onboard scsi controller in sbus systems is not supported.
Enterprise 4500
Ultra 1E
Ultra 2
The following systems are not supported by FreeBSD. This may be due to lack of processor support (UltraSPARC III), due to a quirk in the system design that makes FreeBSD unstable, or due to lack of support for sufficient onboard devices to make FreeBSD generally useful.
All systems containing UltraSPARC III processor(s).
Enterprise 450
Ultra 1
This section describes the devices currently known to be supported by with FreeBSD on the UltraSPARC platform. Other configurations may also work, but simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections to this list are encouraged.
Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class of devices is listed. If the driver in question has a manual page in the FreeBSD base distribution (most should), it is referenced here.
IDE/ATA controllers ( ata(4) driver)
Acard ATP850 UDMA2, ATP860 UDMA4, ATP865 UDMA6
AMD 756 ATA66, 766 ATA100, 768 ATA100
Cenatek Rocket Drive
CMD 646, 648 ATA66, and 649 ATA100
Cypress 82C693
Cyrix 5530 ATA33
HighPoint HPT366 ATA66, HPT370 ATA100, HPT372 ATA133, HPT374 ATA133
Intel PIIX, PIIX3, PIIX4
Intel ICH ATA66, ICH2 ATA100, ICH3 ATA100, ICH4 ATA100
nVidia nForce ATA100
Promise ATA100 OEM chip (pdc20265)
Promise ATA133 OEM chip (pdc20269)
Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100, -100 TX2/TX4, -133 TX2/TX2000
Promise Ultra-33, -66, -100, -133 TX2/TX2000
ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33
ServerWorks CSB5 ATA66/ATA100
Sil 0680 UDMA6
SiS 530, 540, 620
SiS 630, 633, 635, 645, 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 750
SiS 5591 ATA100
VIA 82C586 ATA33, 82C596 ATA66, 82C686a ATA66, 82C686b ATA100
VIA 8233, 8235 ATA133
LSI/SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C825, 53C825a, 53C860, 53C875, 53C875a, 53C876, 53C885, 53C895, 53C895a, 53C896, 53C1010-33, 53C1010-66, 53C1000, 53C1000R PCI SCSI controllers, either embedded on motherboard or on add-on boards ( ncr(4) and sym(4) drivers)
ASUS SC-200, SC-896
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
DawiControl DC2976UW
Diamond FirePort (all)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U, 390F, 390U2B, 390U2W, 390U3D, and 390U3W
Tyan S1365
Qlogic controllers and variants ( isp(4) driver)
Qlogic 1020, 1040 SCSI and Ultra SCSI host adapters
Qlogic 1240 dual Ultra SCSI controllers
Qlogic 1080 Ultra2 LVD and 1280 Dual Ultra2 LVD controllers
Qlogic 12160 Ultra3 LVD controllers
Qlogic 2100 and Qlogic 2200 Fibre Channel SCSI controllers
Qlogic 2300 and Qlogic 2312 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel SCSI controllers
Performance Technology SBS440 ISP1000 variants
Performance Technology SBS450 ISP1040 variants
Performance Technology SBS470 ISP2100 variants
Antares Microsystems P-0033 ISP2100 variants
LSI Logic Fusion/MP architecture Fiber Channel controllers (mpt driver)
LSI FC909, FC929
LSI 53c1020, 53c1030
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I, SCSI-II, and SCSI-III peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT, 8mm Exabyte, Mammoth, and DLT), medium changers, processor target devices and CD-ROM drives. WORM devices that support CD-ROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CD-ROM drivers (such as cd(4)). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by cdrecord(1), which is a part of the sysutils/cdrtools port in the Ports Collection.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) ( cd(4))
ATAPI IDE interface ( acd(4))
Sun HME and QFE Ethernet NICs (hme driver)
Sun GEM (Gigabit Ethernet) and ERI (Fast Ethernet) NICs (gem driver)
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