From owner-freebsd-tilera@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 15:34:56 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 85F76106564A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhferris3@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDAC8FC18 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so193604iae.13 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:34:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=+Cf52sBusnKFF7UARL3lTNfU65Myy7b8+AcnCfILSkM=; b=Xl98lZyPqq0ggRinZSKpF39mfWiXUz8gCfDtuKptj5WX+rTU/jUaAqK80GwTOuyyLe dR8j3DI6DPcf4VDKrsWmrwxyWi1hsrX2urEJ9P26HSH+4qhYBnICTjSPAu9WX1Tb+M9P jo+vZz+wjdaXcz7O5V6f6pxDG02HloBcm0k5g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.15.230 with SMTP id a6mr2561923igd.24.1328022765560; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:12:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.43.126.3 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:12:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F2800C6.1000307@tilera.com> References: <4F27F7DF.6060005@tilera.com> <4F27FA7B.3050306@tilera.com> <4F2800C6.1000307@tilera.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:12:45 -0800 Message-ID: From: Jack Ferris To: Chris Metcalf , "mischnal@andrew.cmu.edu" , David.Eckhardt@cs.cmu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 15:34:56 -0000 Matthew Schnall and I attempted to start porting it over in the fall 2010 semester, and I think we got as far as setting up a build target with a semblance of proper linker scripts and we were able to turn on virtual memory *just* enough to not fall over. I was under the impression that our work got tarred up and sent to tilera or something (We've both since graduated). To be perfectly honest, neither of us had any particular experience with kernel build systems or the tilera architecture, so I'm sure someone who had better knowledge of either could probably replicate our work in a couple of days time. In any case, looping in Dave to figure out where the code may have gotten to/if any other students picked up the work. -Jack On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Chris Metcalf wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-tilera@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-tilera > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-tilera-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >