Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:02:26 +0800 From: Alastair Hogge <agh@fastmail.fm> To: alexmcwhirter@triadic.us Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking to help with the sparc64 port. Message-ID: <20150731020226.GA5060@kropotkin.auxio> In-Reply-To: <2c907ea18ad5daf1d8ca37bf61019e35@triadic.us> References: <2c907ea18ad5daf1d8ca37bf61019e35@triadic.us>
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On 2015-07-30 Thu 13:09:56 -0400 alexmcwhirter@triadic.us, wrote: > Hey Guys, Hi, [removed] > Secondly i want to work on porting sun4v from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. > OpenBSD has nearly every aspect of sun4v operational, but lacks critical > features for us like ZFS and Jails. From the digging I've done on sun4v, > the instruction set is identical to sun4u as in they both use sparcv9. > The differences come in the boot process (which may require a completely > different boot loader or at least a major redesign) and in the hardware > drivers, specifically the virtual drivers used in ldoms. We would also > need a utility to push ldom configuration to the LOM/OBP of the system. > I realize that there is a separate mailing list for sun4v, which I've > also subscribed to. I just wanted to verify with anyone else here > whether they were currently working on either of these two portions of > the project. I figure if anyone is currently working on either of these > two issues we could collaborate and not have to reinvent the wheel. There was some interest in reviving the sun4v port recently: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2015-April/009570.html Cheers al -- "One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket".
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