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Cc: sun4v@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, kmacy@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: sun4v arch
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            Pietro Cerutti <gahr@freebsd.org> writes:
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: Kris Kennaway wrote:
: | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v
: | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low
: | level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel and
: | the sun4v hardware platform, who know their way around things like
: | pmap.c and other MD places where the kernel interfaces with the "bare
: | metal", and who are willing to make a long term (multi-year) commitment
: | to supporting the platform.
: 
: If we had docs...

There's a bunch of sun4v docs available.  See
http://www.sun.com/processors/documentation.html for example.

Warner