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Bufo333
Who joined May 5, 2015, 9:58 a.m.
Wrote the following at May 5, 2015, 10:02 a.m...
I just picked up a Sun Blade 2500 with 2 xvr-1200 cards in it. I wanted to put either OpenBSD or FreeBSD on it. However i am not sure if either OS supports the xvr-1200 and i was hoping somebody has some experience with these two operating systems on Sun hardware.
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miod
From Orgerus (France)
Who joined Oct. 9, 2009, 2:44 a.m.
Wrote the following at May 5, 2015, 11:30 p.m...
Bufo333 wrote: I just picked up a Sun Blade 2500 with 2 xvr-1200 cards in it. I wanted to put either OpenBSD or FreeBSD on it. However i am not sure if either OS supports the xvr-1200 and i was hoping somebody has some experience with these two operating systems on Sun hardware.

To the best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't support the XVR-1200 at all.
OpenBSD has limited support for the first head of the XVR-1200 boards: console will work, and there is an unaccelerated 7-bit X server. That's about all which can be done without hardware documentation.
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at May 6, 2015, 11:19 p.m...
Erm, at the risk of being obvious Solaris supports dual xvr-1200, any reason why you prefer BSD ouch over that? ;)
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