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Hi,

I have three Sun T1000 servers sitting around doing absolutely nothing. =
How can I make them useful?

/Eirik

> On 27 Apr 2015, at 17:32, Trevis Elser =
<trevis+freebsd-sun4v@clickscape.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi there to anyone still on this list. I'm submitting myself as a =
volunteer
> to restart the sun4v architecture port. I've been a FreeBSD user for =
quite
> a while now and I find this interesting so here I am.
>=20
> Obvious places to start seem to be:
> 1) Posting on the sparc64 mailing list a similar message about =
volunteering
> to take this on.
>=20
> 2) Digging up the old sun4v code.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Any thoughts, directions, tips, encouragement, discouragement (though =
that
> would be a curiosity), or hardware to work with :)  etc. etc. would be
> greatly appreciated!
>=20
> Thanks to anyone left who took the time to read this,
>=20
> Trevis
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