Volunteer To Revive Sun4v

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!

Yes, please do resurrect the port if you'd like. ;)

Having updated sun4v support would be great. Those boxes have a lot of
threads and useful virtualisation tuff to work on.

Thanks!



-adrian


On 27 April 2015 at 08:50, 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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