FreeBSD:Sparc

If you intend on running 5.4-RELEASE on Sparc hardware, do not try the 5.4-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso 21420 KB  dated: 	05/09/05  	02:02:00 as the kernel does not boot.

FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE sparc64 (Jan 18/2006): Don't try to use an mii-bus dc(4) network card:

GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "sparc64-marcel-freebsd". (no debugging symbols found)...Attempt to extract a component of a value that is not a structure pointer. (kgdb) bt Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?) (kgdb)
 * 1) kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.0
 * 1) 0 0x00000000c011e868 in doadump
 * 2) 1 0x00000000c011ef68 in boot
 * 3) 2 0x00000000c011f2f4 in panic
 * 4) 3 0x00000000c02c1de4 in trap
 * 5) 4 0x00000000c0048fc0 in tl1_trap
 * 6) 5 0x00000000c00ac1f4 in dcphy_status
 * 7) 6 0x00000000c00ac178 in dcphy_service
 * 8) 7 0x00000000c00ac178 in dcphy_service
 * 9) 8 0x00000000c00af5c4 in mii_tick
 * 10) 9 0x00000000c094cab0 in ??