From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 27 15:50:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0617606 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (mail-ob0-f170.google.com [209.85.214.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4A35166F for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by oblw8 with SMTP id w8so86631464obl.0 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:50:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:date:message-id:subject:from :to:content-type; bh=CWMuprzkNwT2PD70GjeWawXEleYQTesuwXZzhZZAUE0=; b=jnbN/tDFpCFDFhfds3Zj2mxTE2T8BZx/X06BXjcjtYHtetFEe17jMZd111zDFVtbo3 iyAlnrH8kupDIfkMt5C8ldriR36+tOeWDiHZp5NeumYZjoamPsafvw6diJqC25W9Z3dw KfZkoJ08oRQIDNFLXrllw3c/ln6n/vqImKKbAq7nVndZJrNJyL1d/dntfhnABE/exjac gmngTdggLZJfCtQh05idgkcRxTnt0JKcr+2VtD2mivtFhGFoq5WMcxKBkADihpMS+H7a NcJL8R5yy3RAQMnfX3/GsscJ6R5FlOviSW272cwzihyAem17duGvveVQT83F0TFxl5JB ShEQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl5SPzzjGU9vVbgCEzuCY/EtMutih3XExmOCnymKxZO83phRlhrXTzzp8nJGn2E6PtdfM87 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.173.144 with SMTP id w138mr10087900oie.100.1430149801242; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Sender: trevis.elser@clickscape.com Received: by 10.202.56.68 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:50:01 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6QCbcvw9QDez63JbsoOwxrgDSh0 Message-ID: Subject: Volunteer To Revive Sun4v From: Trevis Elser To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:50:10 -0000 Hi everyone. I posted a similar message on the sun4v mailing list, but activity there seems pretty much dead and these are related. I'd like to volunteer to restart the sun4v arch port. Obvious places to start seem to be: 1) Posting on the sparc64 mailing list a similar message about volunteering to take this on. 2) Digging up the old sun4v code. 3) Taking a look at OpenBSD's support for sun4v, which is merged in with sparc64 there. So perhaps something similar, or at least a minimization of code duplication from sparc64 could be achieved in FreeBSD. Any thoughts, directions, tips, encouragement, discouragement (though that would be a curiosity), or hardware to work with :) etc. etc. would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for the time it took to read, Trevis