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(2005/10/3) At boot time the FreeBSD/sparc64 GENERIC kernel may output the following messages when the machine has no framebuffer:
Aug 26 19:31:27 hostname getty[429]: open /dev/ttyv1: No such file or directory
This is because the machine with no supported graphics hardware does not recognize syscons(4) and /dev/ttyv* device nodes are not created. This is not a harmful error and can be suppressed by disabling /dev/ttyv* entries in /etc/ttys.
(2005/10/3) Kernel modules do not work on FreeBSD/sparc64 when the machine has more than 4GB memory. There is no workaround for this issue except for compiling the modules statically into your custom kernel in advance.
(2005/10/3) The kgdb(1) utility does not work properly on FreeBSD/sparc64 for debugging panics which include traps. As a workaround you can use devel/gdb53.
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