From owner-freebsd-tilera@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 14:55:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-tilera@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BCE1065670 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:55:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmetcalf@tilera.com) Received: from USMAMAIL.TILERA.COM (usmamail.tilera.com [206.83.70.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C388FC12 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.104] (24.34.76.130) by USMAExch2.tad.internal.tilera.com (10.3.0.33) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.0.694.0; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:55:03 -0500 Message-ID: <4F2800C6.1000307@tilera.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:55:02 -0500 From: Chris Metcalf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Blackman References: <4F27F7DF.6060005@tilera.com> <4F27FA7B.3050306@tilera.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-tilera@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping X-BeenThere: freebsd-tilera@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: List for porting FreeBSD to the Tilera family of CPUs List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:55:04 -0000 On 1/31/2012 9:39 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote: > >> On 1/31/2012 9:22 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: >>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/31/2012 3:56 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: >>>>> Anyone still working on the FreeBSD port for Tilera? Perhaps 2011 >>>>> was very productive but very stealthy! >>>> >>>> Let's hope so - but I haven't heard anything about it either. :-) >>> >>> Hmm, so Tilera isn't pursuing this? The messages from 2010 suggested >>> Tilera engineers were doing something, but perhaps they were looking >>> for more FreeBSD involvement. >> >> My understanding (from a purely engineering perspective) is that we are >> prepared to support a FreeBSD port, but we are not currently planning to >> drive the port ourselves. > > Ok, fair enough. I wonder if the foundation would be prepared to fund > dedicated effort on porting. I've only just belatedly appreciated how much > more useful Tilera's application targets (64-bit + FP performance) are > compared to ARM. Indeed :-) Some work was going on at CMU under David Eckhardt, but I'm not sure how much progress they made. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com