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Subject: Re: sun4v arch
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Is there a summary of the open issues somewhere?  There are no sun4v
> PRs open.  http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/sun4v effectively hasn't
> been touched since November 2006 and suggests that the only critical
> issue is lack of serial port support.

There is a better interpretation, which is that the only critical issue 
is lack of real users for this port, not lack of serial port support :).

-Maxim