From owner-freebsd-sun4v@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 24 04:02:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837FE1065673 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F198FC14 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1014434fgb.35 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:02:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=FbR9LnBx4r9WCDAz92lLNz10AhdDhg/SeWR+Y4n02xs=; b=Vl2O6YIjOaKHreQbezujfAxZp49hC78AC5oTXVAX2J3QjAIwh9tdwuQj2rocmrL8QS eXYssdA9G01SZBD6nJF6o9hClBSjozCk1IJCsKVcerwKCv2pINFEVIZXq4i4mkIoyUQc FDO5yJupYzJtVWXPjpmHfEB9X0cFwkkphrZC0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ovDvLrcGMIjGUumSYqWeuAgz7s7IvfUvh+1r0U/+1XHW4f5EUx0Zwtb2K1gX1ZcMs9 0Q8dvFpkbq6l/mteufPOf3tIRkznbf9u9+JAKSP179J90QBH69bK13PAT1wRV9CTGy0Q buSZA+pPX+J6UPKfBJXKKJeGNETFyIumD70G8= Received: by 10.86.63.19 with SMTP id l19mr2163446fga.77.1219549169284; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.62.14 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0808232039i78fadb9bu7373e1c36f4f37a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:39:29 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: "Maxim Sobolev" In-Reply-To: <48B0BEC7.1070806@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <136a340a0808220719t3a170786s7fd4bcb662d0b981@mail.gmail.com> <48AED560.8010001@FreeBSD.org> <20080822225510.GI32539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <48B0BEC7.1070806@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kmacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sun4v arch X-BeenThere: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the sun4v List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:02:09 -0000 On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >> Is there a summary of the open issues somewhere? There are no sun4v >> PRs open. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sun4v effectively hasn't >> been touched since November 2006 and suggests that the only critical >> issue is lack of serial port support. > > There is a better interpretation, which is that the only critical issue is > lack of real users for this port, not lack of serial port support :). > > -Maxim Maybe some time should be spent looking at stuff from NetBSD to see whether or not they've solved some already critical porting pieces that FreeBSD lacks in this architecture? -Garrett