Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:25:08 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Eirik_=C3=98verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com> Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dropping sun4v as a platform Message-ID: <F3154718-433E-4BB7-9646-69EE959D6C52@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimLYxWQxe1F2qyU%2BKPQySX0HOaQxA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimUpeESJcHN75Vd=gZdXZzA5QPz-g@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTimLYxWQxe1F2qyU%2BKPQySX0HOaQxA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10. mai 2011, at 18:27, "Sevan / Venture37" <venture37@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 May 2011 16:35, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> wrote: >> I tried to look to a previous discussion on this and I failed to >> locate one, thus let me raise the point here. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> So what are objections (if any) about dropping sun4v? >=20 > support for sun4v was far from stable & a lot of work is needed to get > it up to shape on the other hand there are a lot of these boxes out > there & owners who are not looking to pay the Oracle license costs for > the next version of Solaris. We have half a dozen collecting dust..for exactly that reason. FreeBSD on su= n4v sounds like a perfect match.=20 /Eirik >=20
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