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This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on the UltraSPARC hardware platform (also referred to as FreeBSD/sparc64 5.4-RELEASE). 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 not have been tested with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. We encourage you to try it and send a note to the FreeBSD SPARC porting mailing list with your results, including which devices work and which do not.
The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD.
Blade 100
Blade 150
Enterprise 220R
Enterprise 250
Enterprise 420R
Enterprise 450
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 1E
Ultra 2
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 3500
Enterprise 4500
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).
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. Information on specific models of supported devices, controllers, etc. can be found in the manual pages.
Note: The device lists in this document are being generated automatically from FreeBSD manual pages. This means that some devices, which are supported by multiple drivers, may appear multiple times.
IDE/ATA controllers ( ata(4) driver)
The ahc(4) driver supports the following SCSI host adapter chips and SCSI controller cards:
Adaptec AIC7770 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7850 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7860 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7870 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7880 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7890 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7891 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7892 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7895 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7896 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7897 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7899 host adapter chip
Adaptec 274X(W)
Adaptec 274X(T)
Adaptec 284X
Adaptec 2910
Adaptec 2915
Adaptec 2920
Adaptec 2930C
Adaptec 2930U2
Adaptec 2940
Adaptec 2940J
Adaptec 2940N
Adaptec 2940U
Adaptec 2940AU
Adaptec 2940UW
Adaptec 2940UW Dual
Adaptec 2940UW Pro
Adaptec 2940U2W
Adaptec 2940U2B
Adaptec 2950U2W
Adaptec 2950U2B
Adaptec 19160B
Adaptec 29160B
Adaptec 29160N
Adaptec 3940
Adaptec 3940U
Adaptec 3940AU
Adaptec 3940UW
Adaptec 3940AUW
Adaptec 3940U2W
Adaptec 3950U2
Adaptec 3960
Adaptec 39160
Adaptec 3985
Adaptec 4944UW
NEC PC-9821Xt13 (PC-98)
NEC RvII26 (PC-98)
NEC PC-9821X-B02L/B09 (PC-98)
NEC SV-98/2-B03 (PC-98)
Many motherboards with on-board SCSI support
The ahd(4) driver supports the following:
Adaptec AIC7901 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7901A host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7902 host adapter chip
Adaptec 29320 host adapter
Adaptec 39320 host adapter
Many motherboards with on-board SCSI support
Controllers supported by the amr(4) driver include:
MegaRAID SCSI 320-1E
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E
MegaRAID SCSI 320-4E
MegaRAID SCSI 320-0X
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X
MegaRAID SCSI 320-4X
MegaRAID SATA 300-4X
MegaRAID SATA 300-8X
MegaRAID SATA 150-4
MegaRAID SATA 150-6
MegaRAID i4 133 RAID
MegaRAID SCSI 320-0
MegaRAID SCSI 320-1
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2
MegaRAID SCSI 320-4
MegaRAID Series 418
MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (Series 428)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1300 (Series 434)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1400 (Series 438)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 (Series 467)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 (Series 471)
MegaRAID Elite 1500 (Series 467)
MegaRAID Elite 1600 (Series 493)
MegaRAID Elite 1650 (Series 4xx)
MegaRAID Express 100 (Series 466WS)
MegaRAID Express 200 (Series 466)
MegaRAID Express 300 (Series 490)
MegaRAID Express 500 (Series 475)
Dell PERC
Dell PERC 2/SC
Dell PERC 2/DC
Dell PERC 3/DCL
Dell PERC 3/QC
Dell PERC 4/Di
Dell PERC 4e/Di
Dell PERC 4e/Si
Dell PERC 4ei
HP NetRAID-1/Si
HP NetRAID-3/Si (D4943A)
HP Embedded NetRAID
Intel RAID Controller SRCS16
Intel RAID Controller SRCU42X
The ncr(4) driver provides support for the following NCR/Symbios SCSI controller chips:
53C810
53C810A
53C815
53C820
53C825A
53C860
53C875
53C875J
53C885
53C895
53C895A
53C896
53C1510D
The following add-on boards are known to be supported:
I-O DATA SC-98/PCI (PC-98)
I-O DATA SC-PCI (PC-98)
The sym(4) driver provides support for the following Symbios/LSI Logic PCI SCSI controllers:
53C810
53C810A
53C815
53C825
53C825A
53C860
53C875
53C876
53C895
53C895A
53C896
53C897
53C1000
53C1000R
53C1010-33
53C1010-66
53C1510D
The SCSI controllers supported by sym(4) can be either embedded on a motherboard, or on one of the following add-on boards:
ASUS SC-200, SC-896
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
DawiControl DC2976UW
Diamond FirePort (all)
I-O DATA SC-UPCI (PC-98)
Logitec LHA-521UA (PC-98)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U, 390F, 390U2B, 390U2W, 390U3D, and 390U3W
Tyan S1365
Cards supported by the isp(4) driver include:
ISP1000
PTI SBS440
ISP1020
ISP1040
PTI SBS450
Qlogic 1240
Qlogic 1020
Qlogic 1040
Qlogic 1080
Qlogic 1280
Qlogic 12160
Qlogic 2100
Qlogic 2102
Qlogic 2200
Qlogic 2202
Qlogic 2204
Qlogic 2300
Qlogic 2312
PTI SBS470
Antares P-0033
The following controllers are supported by the mpt(4) driver:
LSI Logic 53c1030 (Dual Ultra320 SCSI)
LSI Logic FC909 (1Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC909A (Dual 1Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC919 (2Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC929, LSI Logic FC929X (Dual 2Gb/s Fibre Channel)
The SCSI controller chips supported by the mpt(4) driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
Dell PowerEdge 1750
IBM eServer xSeries 335
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))
Adapters supported by the rl(4) driver include:
Accton ``Cheetah'' EN1207D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone)
Allied Telesyn AT2550
Allied Telesyn AT2500TX
Belkin F5D5000
BUFFALO (Melco INC.) LPC-CB-CLX (CardBus)
Compaq HNE-300
CompUSA no-name 10/100 PCI Ethernet NIC
Corega FEther CB-TXD
Corega FEtherII CB-TXD
D-Link DFE-528TX
D-Link DFE-530TX+
D-Link DFE-538TX
D-Link DFE-690TXD
Edimax EP-4103DL CardBus
Encore ENL832-TX 10/100 M PCI
Farallon NetLINE 10/100 PCI
Genius GF100TXR,
GigaFast Ethernet EE100-AXP
KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
LevelOne FPC-0106TX
Longshine LCS-8038TX-R
NDC Communications NE100TX-E
Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100
Nortel Networks 10/100BaseTX
OvisLink LEF-8129TX
OvisLink LEF-8139TX
Peppercon AG ROL-F
Planex FNW-3800-TX
SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
SOHO (PRAGMATIC) UE-1211C
The dc(4) driver provides support for the following chipsets:
DEC/Intel 21143
ADMtek AL981 Comet, AN985 Centaur, ADM9511 Centaur II and ADM9513 Centaur II
ASIX Electronics AX88140A and AX88141
Conexant LANfinity RS7112 (miniPCI)
Davicom DM9009, DM9100, DM9102 and DM9102A
Lite-On 82c168 and 82c169 PNIC
Lite-On/Macronix 82c115 PNIC II
Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A, 98715AEC-C, 98725, 98727 and 98732
Xircom X3201 (cardbus only)
The following NICs are known to work with the dc(4) driver at this time:
3Com OfficeConnect 10/100B (ADMtek AN985 Centaur-P)
Abocom FE2500
Accton EN1217 (98715A)
Accton EN2242 MiniPCI
Adico AE310TX (98715A)
Alfa Inc GFC2204 (ASIX AX88140A)
Built in 10Mbps only Ethernet on Compaq Presario 7900 series desktops (21143, non-MII)
Built in DE500-BA on DEC Alpha workstations (21143, non-MII)
Built in Sun DMFE 10/100 Mbps Ethernet on Sun Netra X1 and Sun Fire V100 (DM9102A, MII)
Built in Ethernet on LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Instant GigaDrive (DM9102, MII)
CNet Pro110B (ASIX AX88140A)
CNet Pro120A (98715A or 98713A) and CNet Pro120B (98715)
Compex RL100-TX (98713 or 98713A)
D-Link DFE-570TX (21143, MII, quad port)
Digital DE500-BA 10/100 (21143, non-MII)
ELECOM Laneed LD-CBL/TXA (ADMtek AN985)
Hawking CB102 CardBus
IBM EtherJet Cardbus Adapter
Intel PRO/100 Mobile Cardbus (versions that use the X3201 chipset)
Jaton XpressNet (Davicom DM9102)
Kingston KNE100TX (21143, MII)
Kingston KNE110TX (PNIC 82c169)
LinkSys LNE100TX (PNIC 82c168, 82c169)
LinkSys LNE100TX v2.0 (PNIC II 82c115)
LinkSys LNE100TX v4.0/4.1 (ADMtek AN985 Centaur-P)
Matrox FastNIC 10/100 (PNIC 82c168, 82c169)
Melco LGY-PCI-TXL
Microsoft MN-120 10/100 CardBus (ADMTek Centaur-C)
Microsoft MN-130 10/100 PCI (ADMTek Centaur-P)
NDC SOHOware SFA110A (98713A)
NDC SOHOware SFA110A Rev B4 (98715AEC-C)
NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1, D2 or D3 (PNIC 82c169)
Netgear FA511
PlaneX FNW-3602-T (ADMtek AN985)
SMC EZ Card 10/100 1233A-TX (ADMtek AN985)
SVEC PN102-TX (98713)
Xircom Cardbus Realport
Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100
Xircom Cardbus Ethernet II 10/100
Adapters supported by the fxp(4) driver include:
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
Intel InBusiness 10/100
Intel PRO/100B / EtherExpressPRO/100 B PCI Adapter
Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter
Intel PRO/100 VE Desktop Adapter
Intel PRO/100 M Desktop Adapter
Intel PRO/100 S Desktop, Server and Dual-Port Server Adapters
Contec C-NET(PI)-100TX (PC-98)
NEC PC-9821Ra20, Rv20, Xv13, Xv20 internal 100Base-TX (PC-98)
NEC PC-9821X-B06 (PC-98)
Many on-board network interfaces on Intel motherboards
The xl(4) driver supports the following hardware:
3Com 3c900-TPO
3Com 3c900-COMBO
3Com 3c905-TX
3Com 3c905-T4
3Com 3c900B-TPO
3Com 3c900B-TPC
3Com 3c900B-FL
3Com 3c900B-COMBO
3Com 3c905B-T4
3Com 3c905B-TX
3Com 3c905B-FX
3Com 3c905B-COMBO
3Com 3c905C-TX
3Com 3c980, 3c980B, and 3c980C server adapters
3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapters
3Com 3c450 HomeConnect adapters
3Com 3c555, 3c556 and 3c556B mini-PCI adapters
3Com 3C3SH573BT, 3C575TX, 3CCFE575BT, 3CXFE575BT, 3CCFE575CT, 3CXFE575CT, 3CCFEM656, 3CCFEM656B, and 3CCFEM656C, 3CXFEM656, 3CXFEM656B, and 3CXFEM656C CardBus adapters
3Com 3c905-TX, 3c905B-TX 3c905C-TX, 3c920B-EMB, and 3c920B-EMB-WNM embedded adapters
Both the 3C656 family of CardBus cards and the 3C556 family of MiniPCI cards have a built-in proprietary modem. Neither the xl(4) driver nor any other driver supports this modem.
The hme(4) driver supports the on-board Ethernet interfaces of many Sun UltraSPARC workstation and server models. Cards supported by the hme(4) driver include:
Sun PCI SunSwift Adapter
Sun SBus SunSwift Adapter ``( hme'' and ``SUNW,hme'')
Sun PCI Sun100BaseT Adapter 2.0
Sun SBus Sun100BaseT 2.0
Sun PCI Quad FastEthernet Controller
Sun SBus Quad FastEthernet Controller
Cards supported by gem(4) driver include:
Sun GEM gigabit Ethernet
Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
Apple GMAC
The re(4) driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:
Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1439E 10/100 (8139C+)
Compaq Evo N1015v Integrated Ethernet (8139C+)
Corega CG-LAPCIGT Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (8110S)
LevelOne GNC-0105T (8169S)
PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS Inc. GN-1200TC (8169S)
Xterasys XN-152 10/100/1000 NIC (8169)
FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters (hfa and fatm(4) drivers)
FORE Systems, Inc. HE155 and HE622 ATM interfaces ( hatm(4) driver)
Serial ports based on the SAB82532 serial chip, console only ( sab(4) driver)
Serial ports based on the Zilog 8530 dual uart, console only (zs driver)
The umct(4) driver supports the following adapters:
Belkin F5U109
Belkin F5U409
D-Link DU-H3SP USB BAY Hub
Magic Control Technology USB-232
Sitecom USB-232
The fwohci(4) driver provides support for PCI/CardBus FireWire interface cards. The driver supports the following IEEE 1394 OHCI chipsets:
Adaptec AHA-894x/AIC-5800
Apple Pangea
Apple UniNorth
Intel 82372FB
IOGEAR GUF320
Lucent FW322/323
NEC uPD72861
NEC uPD72870
NEC uPD72871/2
NEC uPD72873
NEC uPD72874
National Semiconductor CS4210
Ricoh R5C551
Ricoh R5C552
Sony CX3022
Sony i.LINK (CXD1947)
Sony i.LINK (CXD3222)
Texas Instruments PCI4410A
Texas Instruments PCI4450
Texas Instruments PCI4451
Texas Instruments TSB12LV22
Texas Instruments TSB12LV23
Texas Instruments TSB12LV26
Texas Instruments TSB43AA22
Texas Instruments TSB43AB21/A/AI/A-EP
Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A
Texas Instruments TSB43AB23
Texas Instruments TSB82AA2
VIA Fire II (VT6306)
Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) storage devices ( sbp(4) driver)
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