From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 27 23:36:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 158C2A76 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) (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 E17A61F2D for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iedfl3 with SMTP id fl3so7207438ied.1 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=x+T+v2jLpfiGBzYgxrMG6Td5qet4osRzhperlFbC7Gc=; b=a61e6qHQOMUlcFDpFvnYsFGHTMIOY8q2Mu+lNiHEpgUThtzlcJCVb7k2BosfpVqgTQ SxEpJMtabtGjGwqUHSgbY2FBQ6ok6e4wdyyYQJRUsCx6DboVnB5Ror1dEWqhLVlP9qTV qPPTgzCsaird57stqadKoBZJMcmCdP637TNis8cs+60qaEMJQuccP3jHkyz4CND9Kdaz Ybw9Bv4toDinVRlVqntWN6htBx09OBNTbfWbnK4yrDqX9lcv6AH6/oxoXKGPFe8wuuFD hTyHS62IgUS41XHRKI71qnnaSZGk26PYuHsme7nogPo9/gqHza+eikShwNHfl0JQ6AN+ qp/g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.57.51 with SMTP id f19mr16426798igq.6.1430177811384; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.38.133 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:36:51 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3nq8VmqQahXEWN6bmz44yNnCnnQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: Volunteer To Revive Sun4v From: Adrian Chadd To: Trevis Elser Cc: freebsd-sparc64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 23:36:52 -0000 Hi! Yes, please do resurrect the port if you'd like. ;) Having updated sun4v support would be great. Those boxes have a lot of threads and useful virtualisation tuff to work on. Thanks! -adrian On 27 April 2015 at 08:50, Trevis Elser wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"