From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 27 16:04:25 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 394D8B34 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:04:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sender1.zohomail.com (sender1.zohomail.com [74.201.84.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2698D1865 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:04:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [150.0.7.9] (rrcs-67-79-10-18.sw.biz.rr.com [67.79.10.18]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1430150656055699.5391426504763; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:04:16 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.4.9.150325 Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:04:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Volunteer To Revive Sun4v From: Robert Parkhurst To: Trevis Elser , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Volunteer To Revive Sun4v References: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable 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 16:04:25 -0000 Greetings, I would love to see this and if possible, would like to help out. I=B9ve got an Ultra 60 at home with dual UltraII 450=B9s and I think 768MB RAM to work with. Thanks, Robert On 4/27/15, 10:50 AM, "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"