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Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you,
 and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To: Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
Cc: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>,
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[snip]

I can definitely acquire sparc64 hardware in the bay area if people
are actually able/willing to do platform bringup.

The challenge is finding people to do the platform bringup work.

I can get T2000 class hardware here if people wish to do sun4v bringup
again for the more recent hardware generations. I'd like to see it
because it means we can rush to > 512 cpus with reasonably (nowish)
available hardware.



-adrian