From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 11:33:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4DA92E9 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5A8D1FB2 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C26A209DF; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:33:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:33:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h=cc :content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=Z7Pik 7w+0P+LfBwRVfRk4Fq+jX8=; b=WVz9WUnYOrFZDvUEB8DQjjh6VBvpLQE7xreON jri4hrpl3/F0P2E9TdqnQHLVPB7F9eQPuU1i7y4TiwAAFA9tawIyL+eaZYVzQSuu nYX+GBeTJcj6xULyCTQddfN9RqWlMBc3rrHIo/NwPg2/bxQfAhOOd/1C5A8My6hR 5LbySA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=Z7Pik7w+0P+LfBwRVfRk4Fq+jX8=; b=lJgyR HfY89Y/+3QjZA0dgjOm27T/BO56kfucfDJkeAoZwBzh5v0ianscc2Up84V14qP3g OfXQU3W68bfnNMs9KOzamNeEe6iB+/aS9UgMeGAL4D1pIrF/KzJFxUcHgnbQSAyb BkUQ29R0BX+B0gY4Z553P3q7e7vkm+fYJ8oGZw= X-Sasl-enc: R3rOAnoqQaGAaCOD/rpai5GfSyqNRDbUnxGyrRVp5hTb 1430220830 Received: from kropotkin.auxio (unknown [223.252.30.161]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2349FC00015; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:33:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:33:47 +0800 From: Alastair Hogge To: Trevis Elser Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Volunteer To Revive Sun4v Message-ID: <20150428113347.GE23894@kropotkin.auxio> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:33:53 -0000 Yes please. I have a T5220 that I could use for testing. On 2015-04-27 Mon 11:50:01 -0400 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 -- He jests at scars who never felt a wound. -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"