[FreeBSD 8.2 release] boot from dvd fails on Sun Fire T2000

Denis Saget geodni at free.fr
Wed Jul 6 09:18:46 UTC 2011


Peter Jeremy a écrit :
> On 2011-Mar-09 14:51:41 -0600, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>   
>> AFAIK sun4v support was never completed.  Someone, please correct me
>> if I am wrong.
>>     
>
> No, you're not wrong.
>
> I had a look at it a couple of years ago but I can only allocate a
> LDom guest to FreeBSD and FreeBSD has no support for any of the
> virtualised devices.  Implementing the infrastructure to work with the
> sun4v hypervisor is a non-trivial task and I never managed to make
> any real progress.
>
> I'm unaware of anyone else who has done anything in the past few years.
>
>   
Hello

Still no progress on that platform ?
Which BSD like will best use SunFire T2000, OpenBSD or NetBSD ?
Or perhaps it's better using the platform with LDOMs and OpenBSD as a 
guest ?
Any advice is really appreciated.
Denis


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