Dropping sun4v as a platform

[Matthew Jacob]

Since it hasn't had a champion for a while, that seems right.
I even offered up my T2000 to donations@ and got no takers (it's now in 
use otherwise).

On Tue, 10 May 2011, Attilio Rao wrote:

> I tried to look to a previous discussion on this and I failed to
> locate one, thus let me raise the point here.
>
> As I'm working on on largeSMP support, I was wondering how much sense
> makes to fixing sun4v for this.
> Besides having 'tinderbox/universe' working, not so much it seems.
> The code is pretty much rotting and marius@ said explicitely that an
> effective effort on that platform should probabilly be more similar to
> what OpenBSD does with it. He also is in favor of dropping the support
> entirely, right now.
>
> So what are objections (if any) about dropping sun4v?
>
> Attilio
>
>
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