Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:58:57 -0800 From: Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincus@gmail.com> To: kmacy@fsmware.com Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Niagara Message-ID: <bc915a050601262258y28ae8d57y1d5515839c239140@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170601262207n4c1cad17pf03c5d133b95fd83@mail.gmail.com> References: <b1fa29170601262207n4c1cad17pf03c5d133b95fd83@mail.gmail.com>
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Anything I can do. I'm excited, too, and looking for a way to channel that excitement into action. Getting a sense of who's who and what formal structure you guys are following to get the job done would all be helpful. I've never worked on an open source porting project before, so I'm a little green behind the ears. I'm glad to hear that Sun had made hardware available. That happily means I won't have to beg my superiors. JP -- On 1/26/06, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> wrote: > Seeing another hypervisor become available is quite exciting. I'm sure th= e > FreeBSD community would love to have any help you can provide in getting > FreeBSD up and going on the sun4v. > > Sun is already being quite helpful in providing hardware and Yahoo will a= lso > be hosting a couple of boxes to facilitate a port. The device models shou= ld > be available shortly. Unfortunately, the domaining API won't be publicly > available for a couple of months. I don't think it will be that much work= to > get FreeBSD up as an unprivileged guest. > > > > -Kip >
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