sun4v arch

[Eirik Øverby]

I have three t1000s, and could dedicate one to this effort. Would  
rather not move it; but give all necessary access including direct- 
attached x86 hw.

Would that be helpful?

/Eirik

On 22. aug.. 2008, at 20.21, "Nikolay Kalev" <nkalev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>>
>> |
>> | Kris
>>
>>
>> - --
>> Pietro Cerutti
>> gahr at FreeBSD.org
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