SPARC vs. the MPSAFE TTY layer

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 02:34:01 pm Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello SPARC hackers,
>
> Last week I sent this message to some of the FreeBSD lists, to discuss
> my work on the new TTY layer I'm working on. The entire message is
> available at:
>
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2008-June/008270.html
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> -----
>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:56:32 +0200
> > From: Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
> > To: FreeBSD Arch <arch at FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current
> > <current at FreeBSD.org> Subject: MPSAFE TTY layer - Testers? Reviews?
>
> [...]
>
> > - The sio(4), cy(4), digi(4), ubser(4), uftdi(4), nmdm(4), ng_h4(4),
> >   ng_tty(4), sl(4), ppp(4), snp(4), rp(4), rc(4), si(4), umodem(4),
> >   dcons(4), IA64 SKI console driver and Sun4V console driver have not
> >   been ported yet. ucom(4) also needs to be polished. sio(4) should be
> >   replaced by uart(4). Help wanted.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> There are actually two things which should be of interest to the SPARC
> people:
>
> - The Sun4V console driver does not compile anymore. It needs some work
>   to get it back to a usable state. I don't own a Sun4V machine, which
>   means I can't fix it.

You can make it compile though via 'make buildkernel TARGET=sun4v'.

-- 
John Baldwin