Volunteer To Revive Sun4v

[Trevis]

Robert,

The Ultra 60 should be taken care of by the existing sparc64 port as listed
on https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html The sun4v port would be for
machines such as the T2000. As far as I know, there hasn't been a
workstation with a sun4v processor. Though I would gladly be proven wrong
on that.

Best,

Trevis

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Robert Parkhurst <
raparkhurst at digitalxerf.com> wrote:

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