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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:41:11AM -0500, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us wrote:
> As far as sun4v goes, it's almost identical to sun4u. Basically you just
> need to have drivers for the virtual devices, serial console would be the
> fist big one. Other than that, sun4u code should run with little to no
> changes.

My understanding was that the virtual memory hardware is different, and
that is why our first effort to support sun4v stalled.

mcl