sparc64
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| NetBSD/sparc64 www.NetBSD.org/ports/sparc64 sparc64 | |
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| Status: | active |
| First: | 1.5 |
| Last: | 3.1 |
| Maintainer: | Martin Husemann Andrey Petrov |
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NetBSD/sparc64
NetBSD/sparc64 is a NetBSD port to Sun's 64-bit UltraSPARC machines. The first binary release for sparc64 was NetBSD 1.5. NetBSD/sparc64 supports many systems, including Sbus-based UltraSPARC systems and PCI-based UltraSPARC systems using UltraSPARC I, II, IIi, and IIe CPU types.
NetBSD/sparc64 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels. A 32-bit kernel runs all NetBSD/sparc binaries. A 64-bit kernel runs 64-bit binaries, and has support for running most 32-bit binaries as well, with the exception of some low level kernel groveling tools. Additionally, NetBSD/sparc64 is able to run Solaris 64 and 32 bit binaries with emulation (see compat_solaris(8)) and the pkgsrc package emulators/netbsd32_compat16.
Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/sparc64 are available for the 3.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.
Martin Husemann and Andrey Petrov are the maintainers for NetBSD/sparc64.
Buying a Sun Ultra
Since this machines are not built anymore, your best chance to get one, is to look at http://ebay.com. They are pretty cheap at the moment, so don't forget to get one for yourself.
