sun4v status

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 30 08:57:16 UTC 2008


Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I'm trying to get up to speed with sun4v.  Some questions:
> 1) Is there a more recent snapshot than 7.0-20061112-SNAP-sun4v-disc1.iso

I don't know if there is a newer ISO image.  You can cross-build a world 
and install that though, if you can get it on there (netboot, live CD, etc).

> 2) Other than the pmap issues (missing TLB shootdowns) what are the
>    critical issues that need to be addressed?

There might be (probably are) others but it's hard to say until the 
system is minimally usable.

> 3) What state is the virtual network driver in?  I've seen several
>    suggestions that it was being worked on but can't find it in the
>    CVS repo.

I suspect only Kip knows about this.

Kris


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