Volunteer To Revive Sun4v

[Robert Parkhurst]

Ahh okay my bad…I thought I’d done my research better..never mind at
hardware :(



From:  Trevis <trevis+freebsd-sun4v at clickscape.com>
Date:  Monday, April 27, 2015 at 11:12 AM
To:  Robert Parkhurst <raparkhurst at digitalxerf.com>
Cc:  <freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org>
Subject:  Re: Volunteer To Revive Sun4v

Robert,

The Ultra 60 should be taken care of by the existing sparc64 port as listed
on https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html The sun4v port would be for
machines such as the T2000. As far as I know, there hasn't been a
workstation with a sun4v processor. Though I would gladly be proven wrong on
that.

Best,

Trevis

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Robert Parkhurst
<raparkhurst at digitalxerf.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I would love to see this and if possible, would like to help out.
> 
> I¹ve got an Ultra 60 at home with dual UltraII 450¹s and I think 768MB RAM
> to work with.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/27/15, 10:50 AM, "Trevis Elser" <trevis+freebsd-sun4v at clickscape.com
> <mailto:trevis%2Bfreebsd-sun4v at clickscape.com> >
> wrote:
> 
>> >Hi everyone. I posted a similar message on the sun4v mailing list, but
>> >activity there seems pretty much dead and these are related. I'd like to
>> >volunteer to restart the sun4v arch port.
>> >
>> >Obvious places to start seem to be:
>> >1) Posting on the sparc64 mailing list a similar message about
>> >volunteering
>> >to take this on.
>> >
>> >2) Digging up the old sun4v code.
>> >
>> >3) Taking a look at OpenBSD's support for sun4v, which is merged in with
>> >sparc64 there. So perhaps something similar, or at least a minimization of
>> >code duplication from sparc64 could be achieved in FreeBSD.
>> >
>> >Any thoughts, directions, tips, encouragement, discouragement (though that
>> >would be a curiosity), or hardware to work with :)  etc. etc. would be
>> >greatly appreciated!
>> >
>> >Thank you for the time it took to read,
>> >
>> >Trevis
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