sun4v arch

[Nikolay Kalev]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Eirik Øverby <ltning at anduin.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
yes i think it is :-)
that is ok with me as soon as we can form a team
> /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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