17 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: sun4v arch| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Nikolay Kalev | Aug 22, 2008 7:18 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Aug 22, 2008 8:03 am | |
| Pietro Cerutti | Aug 22, 2008 9:49 am | |
| Peter Jeremy | Aug 22, 2008 3:54 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Aug 22, 2008 11:51 pm | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Aug 23, 2008 6:51 pm | |
| Garrett Cooper | Aug 23, 2008 8:39 pm | |
| Mark Linimon | Aug 23, 2008 8:40 pm | |
| Peter Jeremy | Aug 23, 2008 9:23 pm | |
| Sevan / Venture37 | Aug 23, 2008 9:33 pm | |
| Kip Macy | Aug 23, 2008 9:39 pm | |
| Kip Macy | Aug 23, 2008 9:49 pm | |
| Brad | Aug 23, 2008 11:46 pm | |
| Matthew Macy | Aug 23, 2008 11:48 pm | |
| Sevan / Venture37 | Aug 24, 2008 10:46 am | |
| Maxim Sobolev | Aug 25, 2008 2:35 pm | |
| Peter Jeremy | Aug 28, 2008 4:49 am |
| Subject: | Re: sun4v arch | |
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| From: | Peter Jeremy (pete...@optushome.com.au) | |
| Date: | Aug 23, 2008 9:23:16 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On 2008-Aug-23 22:40:55 -0500, Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote:
My understanding is the the port is in a pre-alpha state due to unfinished work in the kernel, so expecting there to be any userbase is premature.
Except that the wiki gives a far more optimistic picture.
All of our 'new' architectures which are in this state have so few non- developer users that there is hardly any reason to submit PRs. AFAICT the active developers already know what's missing :-)
That makes it very difficult for someone outside that group to come up to speed. I can't find anything in the freebsd-sun4v archvies. I was hoping that there would be a list somewhere of what state various subsystems were in and what remained to be done. wiki.freebsd.org sounds like the ideal place for this.
On 2008-Aug-23 20:39:29 -0700, Garrett Cooper <yane...@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe some time should be spent looking at stuff from NetBSD to see whether or not they've solved some already critical porting pieces that FreeBSD lacks in this architecture?
I can't find anything that suggests NetBSD runs on sun4v. Their sparc64 port only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v.
-- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.