Volunteer To Revive Sun4v

[Alastair Hogge]

Yes please.  I have a T5220 that I could use for testing.

On 2015-04-27 Mon 11:50:01 -0400 Trevis Elser <trevis+freebsd-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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