From owner-freebsd-sun4v@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 17:59:24 2011 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 4BB471065677; Tue, 10 May 2011 17:59:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: from mail.anduin.net (mail.anduin.net [213.225.74.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088118FC20; Tue, 10 May 2011 17:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 22-68-15.connect.netcom.no ([46.15.68.22] helo=[10.252.19.95]) by mail.anduin.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1QJqgL-0004S5-Jx; Tue, 10 May 2011 19:25:13 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8G4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8G4) From: =?utf-8?Q?Eirik_=C3=98verby?= Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:25:08 +0200 To: Sevan / Venture37 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 46.15.68.22 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ltning@anduin.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.anduin.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Attilio Rao , "freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Dropping sun4v as a platform 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: Tue, 10 May 2011 17:59:24 -0000 On 10. mai 2011, at 18:27, "Sevan / Venture37" wrote: > On 10 May 2011 16:35, Attilio Rao wrote: >> I tried to look to a previous discussion on this and I failed to >> locate one, thus let me raise the point here. >>=20 >> As I'm working on on largeSMP support, I was wondering how much sense >> makes to fixing sun4v for this. >> Besides having 'tinderbox/universe' working, not so much it seems. >> The code is pretty much rotting and marius@ said explicitely that an >> effective effort on that platform should probabilly be more similar to >> what OpenBSD does with it. He also is in favor of dropping the support >> entirely, right now. >>=20 >> So what are objections (if any) about dropping sun4v? >=20 > support for sun4v was far from stable & a lot of work is needed to get > it up to shape on the other hand there are a lot of these boxes out > there & owners who are not looking to pay the Oracle license costs for > the next version of Solaris. We have half a dozen collecting dust..for exactly that reason. FreeBSD on su= n4v sounds like a perfect match.=20 /Eirik >=20