sun4v arch

[Nikolay Kalev]

For me the problem is the hardware mostly and some documents will be
realy welcome as Pietro mentioned.
As for the multi-year dedication i don;t think that will be such
issue. Another thing is that time will be needed to get on the right
track.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Pietro Cerutti <gahr at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> | Pietro Cerutti wrote:
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> |> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> |> | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v
> |> | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about)
> |> low
> |> | level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel
> |> and
> |> | the sun4v hardware platform, who know their way around things like
> |> | pmap.c and other MD places where the kernel interfaces with the "bare
> |> | metal", and who are willing to make a long term (multi-year) commitment
> |> | to supporting the platform.
> |>
> |> If we had docs...
> |
> | What documentation is unavailable?
>
> Low-level docs to get started diving into sys/${ARCH}/${ARCH}..
> Not that easy...
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> |
> | Kris
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