Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 07:38:41 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel-lucent.com> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: "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: <20110510213841.GQ1343@pjdesk.au.alcatel-lucent.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimUpeESJcHN75Vd=gZdXZzA5QPz-g@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimUpeESJcHN75Vd=gZdXZzA5QPz-g@mail.gmail.com>
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--H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-May-10 23:35:21 +0800, 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. Last discussion was in Aug 2008 - see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sun4v/2008-August/000035.html At the time, I expressed an interest in working on it but that necessitated getting sun4v working as a LDom guest and I found that task was too big for the time I could allocate to it. >As I'm working on on largeSMP support, I was wondering how much sense >makes to fixing sun4v for this. I guess it's a very good choice if you want lots of virtual CPUs in a single small box but I'm not sure there's the critical mass to get the existing code into a functional state. >So what are objections (if any) about dropping sun4v? I'd be sorry to see it go but unless there's someone with the time and motivation to lead a sub-project to get it back into a working state, I don't see much point in keeping it around. --=20 Peter Jeremy --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3JsGEACgkQ/opHv/APuIdLvgCfaLq6OexV6vGIL4y7grPCXllY jmoAni+yl7MpRMNoI+NrrPYxk/aOjpL+ =MoG4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2--
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