From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 06:59:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0461016A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:59:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.pincus@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1088B43D49 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:58:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.pincus@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so653009wri for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:58:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=M/PZJpRDLhfx688hJjn45FsRsdOfgSKXtIkbWdsULthYaG6UdFLe0LrTs8nXB0hXA6LsSKh7ze2an0zxOShX7vFgf6VbRcJQY1ZYbFpGGC8XVE/OeJ0LPdowIoQv648hCSdHfImbzcSkCAoLaNgeteSykCjuVDpwbimbIDnUf40= Received: by 10.64.83.19 with SMTP id g19mr26673qbb; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.114.20 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:58:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:58:57 -0800 From: Joshua Pincus To: kmacy@fsmware.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Niagara X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:59:00 -0000 Anything I can do. I'm excited, too, and looking for a way to channel that excitement into action. Getting a sense of who's who and what formal structure you guys are following to get the job done would all be helpful. I've never worked on an open source porting project before, so I'm a little green behind the ears. I'm glad to hear that Sun had made hardware available. That happily means I won't have to beg my superiors. JP -- On 1/26/06, Kip Macy wrote: > Seeing another hypervisor become available is quite exciting. I'm sure th= e > FreeBSD community would love to have any help you can provide in getting > FreeBSD up and going on the sun4v. > > Sun is already being quite helpful in providing hardware and Yahoo will a= lso > be hosting a couple of boxes to facilitate a port. The device models shou= ld > be available shortly. Unfortunately, the domaining API won't be publicly > available for a couple of months. I don't think it will be that much work= to > get FreeBSD up as an unprivileged guest. > > > > -Kip >