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Date:      Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:20:39 +0200
From:      Denis Saget <geodni@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD 8.2 release] boot from dvd fails on Sun Fire T2000
Message-ID:  <4E1428E7.2040906@free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20110310193640.GA53044@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <4D77D2BF.1090106@free.fr> <20110309205141.GB18229@lonesome.com> <20110310193640.GA53044@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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Peter Jeremy a écrit :
> On 2011-Mar-09 14:51:41 -0600, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
>   
>> AFAIK sun4v support was never completed.  Someone, please correct me
>> if I am wrong.
>>     
>
> No, you're not wrong.
>
> I had a look at it a couple of years ago but I can only allocate a
> LDom guest to FreeBSD and FreeBSD has no support for any of the
> virtualised devices.  Implementing the infrastructure to work with the
> sun4v hypervisor is a non-trivial task and I never managed to make
> any real progress.
>
> I'm unaware of anyone else who has done anything in the past few years.
>
>   
Hello

Still no progress on that platform ?
Which BSD like will best use SunFire T2000, OpenBSD or NetBSD ?
Or perhaps it's better using the platform with LDOMs and OpenBSD as a 
guest ?
Any advice is really appreciated.
Denis



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