Sparc64 frame buffer card support

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I just happened on a Sun Blade 2500 silver workstation. The workstation has 2 xvr-1200 video cards in the system. I know OpenBSD supposedly supports the cards with the ifb kernel driver. I have not been able to find any documentation on FreeBSD support for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
The only thing I could find is the below, which says nothing about any of the xvr cards, such as the xvr-100,xvr-300, xvr-600, and the xvr-1200. The manual pages links are broken and I can't find any hardware listed under the man pages for machfb(4) or creator(4). I believe the xvr series of cards uses a 3dlabs wildcat chipset.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#PROC-SPARC64
Sun System Handbook.
2.6 SPARC

SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.

When using the GENERIC kernel, FreeBSD/sparc64 systems not equipped with a framebuffer supported by the creator(4) (Sun Creator, Sun Creator3D and Sun Elite3D) or machfb(4) (Sun PGX and Sun PGX64 as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example Sun Blade™ 100, Sun Blade 150, Sun Ultra™ 5 and Sun Ultra 10) driver must use the serial console.

If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not have been tested with FreeBSD 9.0-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.
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There is always the option of using OpenBSD since it was the architecture upon which Theo did start. Remember, also, that code is able to be shared and ported between the BSD operating systems. Such has been accomplished with NetBSD using FreeBSD code with the Power architecture for the 64 bit systems.
 
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