Author: marius
Date: Sat Apr 25 20:31:47 2009
New Revision: 191491
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191491
Log:
Sync the sparc64 hardware notes with reality, mainly regarding support
of sun4u-machines based on USIII and beyond in 7.2-RELEASE.
Reviewed by: blackend
MFC after: 3 days
Modified:
head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml Sat Apr 25
19:14:22 2009 (r191490)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml Sat Apr 25
20:31:47 2009 (r191491)
@@ -331,10 +331,13 @@
<para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1
processor.</para>
- <para>In general, &os;/&arch.sparc64; systems must use serial
- consoles. While it is possible to boot or install a system
- using the OpenFirmware console, the console device is not
- usable.</para>
+ <para>When using the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
+ &os;/&arch.sparc64; systems not equipped with a framebuffer
+ supported by the &man.creator.4; (&sun; Creator, &sun; Creator3D
+ and &sun; Elite3D) or &man.machfb.4; (&sun; PGX and &sun; PGX64
+ as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example
+ &sun.blade; 100, &sun.blade; 150, &sun.ultra; 5 and &sun.ultra; 10)
+ driver must use the serial console.</para>
<para>If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not
have been tested with &os; &release.current;. We encourage
@@ -353,6 +356,10 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>&sun.enterprise; 100</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>&sun.enterprise; 220R</para>
</listitem>
@@ -409,6 +416,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>&sparcengine; Ultra AX1105</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sparcengine; Ultra AXe</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>&sparcengine; Ultra AXi</para>
</listitem>
@@ -447,11 +462,17 @@
<listitem>
<para>&sun.ultra; 80</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.ultra; 450</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following systems are partially supported by &os;. In
- particular the onboard SCSI controller in sbus systems is not
- supported.</para>
+ particular the fibre channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not
+ supported. However, it's possible to use these with a SCSI controller
+ supported by the &man.esp.4 driver (&sun; ESP SCSI, &sun; FAS Fast-SCSI
+ and &sun; FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -463,15 +484,54 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>The following systems are not supported by &os;. This may
- be due to lack of processor support (&ultrasparc; III), due to
- a quirk in the system design that makes &os; unstable, or due
- to lack of support for sufficient onboard devices to make &os;
- generally useful.</para>
+ <para>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64; systems based on
+ &ultrasparc; III and beyond are also supported by &os, which includes
+ the following known working systems:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.blade; 1000</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.blade; 1500</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.blade; 2000</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.fire; 280R</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V210</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V440 (except for the on-board NICs)</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V880</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&netra; 20/&netra; T4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>The following &ultrasparc; IIIi systems are not tested but
+ believed to be also supported by &os.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>All systems containing &ultrasparc; III processor(s).</para>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V125</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V240</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
@@ -1618,9 +1678,6 @@
<para>[&arch.pc98;] Power Management Controller of NEC PC-98
Note (pmc driver)</para>
-
- <para>[&arch.sparc64;] OpenFirmware console (ofwcons
- driver)</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</article>
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