From owner-freebsd-sun4v@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 18:28:29 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 3AE24106564A; Tue, 10 May 2011 18:28:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from ns1.feral.com (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0096B8FC12; Tue, 10 May 2011 18:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns1.feral.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.feral.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4AHomXQ070725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 10 May 2011 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by ns1.feral.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p4AHomLf070722; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.feral.com: mjacob owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob To: Attilio Rao In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (ns1.feral.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 10 May 2011 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping sun4v as a platform X-BeenThere: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthew Jacob 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 18:28:29 -0000 Since it hasn't had a champion for a while, that seems right. I even offered up my T2000 to donations@ and got no takers (it's now in use otherwise). On Tue, 10 May 2011, Attilio Rao wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >