From owner-freebsd-sun4v@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 16:08:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF150106566B; Tue, 10 May 2011 16:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asmrookie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E898FC13; Tue, 10 May 2011 16:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so844718vws.13 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 09:08:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZwKf5CTzkjcwhOdcTQSoVdEaD0VcxS5kskdEtS5wJ/c=; b=XHJM+g6v9HUBHiJfBx5yFvflTPnDqbSFB/SCsLpwemk1B/fgmu/aspwKhVkdhSJOMM rCfpp+40ldnNVa2qLri6FQ7FE8TbPaCrZRzRqBEYOJ3Tqv7XAsLZkwEVmFGc4iGjHATO IscHgW2lh3WtmzZAcFB6UwqE0FOzpfGSuc94A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; b=E0zYH7L0h/P0HtYKTo2oVNVjRV9eRZ5FwHBMMWNpRySQP+3nwRXHtEQ+AcYROjVhmS rw4mV/c9RjHfvvOHzNhNbaYRlXNGslcF9k/xvHXM+0A+s1irR+vINcR6fJNAL8pswzvj 2OKmiLHnd/BYMwoPOZQEQ1PsfH2wS8Xr2bbNU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.95.203 with SMTP id dm11mr8214203vdb.213.1305041721345; Tue, 10 May 2011 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: asmrookie@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.201.3 with HTTP; Tue, 10 May 2011 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:35:21 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: jX1ouf2wdVg_2WpMzPlfc9spdtw Message-ID: From: Attilio Rao To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org Subject: Dropping sun4v as a platform X-BeenThere: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the sun4v List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:08:10 -0000 I tried to look to a previous discussion on this and I failed to locate one, thus let me raise the point here. As I'm working on on largeSMP support, I was wondering how much sense makes to fixing sun4v for this. Besides having 'tinderbox/universe' working, not so much it seems. The code is pretty much rotting and marius@ said explicitely that an effective effort on that platform should probabilly be more similar to what OpenBSD does with it. He also is in favor of dropping the support entirely, right now. So what are objections (if any) about dropping sun4v? Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein