Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:21:20 +0300 From: "Nikolay Kalev" <nkalev@gmail.com> To: "Pietro Cerutti" <gahr@freebsd.org> Cc: kmacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sun4v arch Message-ID: <136a340a0808221121k1715b351sdfdc149128aeca8d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48AEF211.4060801@FreeBSD.org> References: <136a340a0808220719t3a170786s7fd4bcb662d0b981@mail.gmail.com> <48AED560.8010001@FreeBSD.org> <48AEEE3C.7030006@FreeBSD.org> <48AEEFFA.5030804@FreeBSD.org> <48AEF211.4060801@FreeBSD.org>
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For me the problem is the hardware mostly and some documents will be
realy welcome as Pietro mentioned.
As for the multi-year dedication i don;t think that will be such
issue. Another thing is that time will be needed to get on the right
track.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> | Pietro Cerutti wrote:
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> |> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> |> | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v
> |> | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about)
> |> low
> |> | level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel
> |> and
> |> | the sun4v hardware platform, who know their way around things like
> |> | pmap.c and other MD places where the kernel interfaces with the "bare
> |> | metal", and who are willing to make a long term (multi-year) commitment
> |> | to supporting the platform.
> |>
> |> If we had docs...
> |
> | What documentation is unavailable?
>
> Low-level docs to get started diving into sys/${ARCH}/${ARCH}..
> Not that easy...
>
> |
> | Kris
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>
> - --
> Pietro Cerutti
> gahr@FreeBSD.org
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