Volunteer To Revive Sun4v

[Robert Parkhurst]

Greetings,

I would love to see this and if possible, would like to help out.

I¹ve got an Ultra 60 at home with dual UltraII 450¹s and I think 768MB RAM
to work with.



Thanks,

Robert



On 4/27/15, 10:50 AM, "Trevis Elser" <trevis+freebsd-sun4v at clickscape.com>
wrote:

>Hi everyone. I posted a similar message on the sun4v mailing list, but
>activity there seems pretty much dead and these are related. I'd like to
>volunteer to restart the sun4v arch port.
>
>Obvious places to start seem to be:
>1) Posting on the sparc64 mailing list a similar message about
>volunteering
>to take this on.
>
>2) Digging up the old sun4v code.
>
>3) Taking a look at OpenBSD's support for sun4v, which is merged in with
>sparc64 there. So perhaps something similar, or at least a minimization of
>code duplication from sparc64 could be achieved in FreeBSD.
>
>Any thoughts, directions, tips, encouragement, discouragement (though that
>would be a curiosity), or hardware to work with :)  etc. etc. would be
>greatly appreciated!
>
>Thank you for the time it took to read,
>
>Trevis
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