atom feed24 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-sun4vRe: sun4v arch
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Nikolay KalevAug 22, 2008 7:18 am 
Kris KennawayAug 22, 2008 8:03 am 
Pietro CeruttiAug 22, 2008 9:49 am 
Kris KennawayAug 22, 2008 9:57 am 
Pietro CeruttiAug 22, 2008 10:06 am 
Nikolay KalevAug 22, 2008 11:20 am 
Eirik ØverbyAug 22, 2008 12:23 pm 
Nikolay KalevAug 22, 2008 1:40 pm 
Peter JeremyAug 22, 2008 3:54 pm 
Kris KennawayAug 22, 2008 4:13 pm 
M. Warner LoshAug 22, 2008 11:51 pm 
Maxim SobolevAug 23, 2008 6:51 pm 
Garrett CooperAug 23, 2008 8:39 pm 
Mark LinimonAug 23, 2008 8:40 pm 
Peter JeremyAug 23, 2008 9:23 pm 
Sevan / Venture37Aug 23, 2008 9:33 pm 
Kip MacyAug 23, 2008 9:39 pm 
Kip MacyAug 23, 2008 9:49 pm 
BradAug 23, 2008 11:46 pm 
Matthew MacyAug 23, 2008 11:48 pm 
Sevan / Venture37Aug 24, 2008 10:46 am 
Maxim SobolevAug 25, 2008 2:35 pm 
Peter JeremyAug 28, 2008 4:49 am 
Peter JeremyAug 28, 2008 3:04 pm 
Subject:Re: sun4v arch
From:Maxim Sobolev (sobo@FreeBSD.org)
Date:Aug 25, 2008 2:35:03 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-sun4v

Maxim Sobolev wrote:

Peter Jeremy wrote:

Is there a summary of the open issues somewhere? There are no sun4v PRs open. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sun4v effectively hasn't been touched since November 2006 and suggests that the only critical issue is lack of serial port support.

There is a better interpretation, which is that the only critical issue is lack of real users for this port, not lack of serial port support :).

Just to clarify a bit - my point was not to suggest that port is irrelevant, or that the FreeBSD should not go there. In fact I believe on contrary from what I know sun4v is good as a testbed for the future of multi-processor architectures today - definitely we will see ever increasing number of cores in commodity Intel/AMD servers in few years from now. So that in that sense sun4v work is very important if the FreeBSD project wants to keep ahead of things, not catching-up later.

However, realistically immaturity of the port as well as scarcity of hardware limits number of users severely. Therefore, absence of PRs should not be surprising to anyone.

-Maxim

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