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From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sun4v arch
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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

Maybe some time should be spent looking at stuff from NetBSD to see
whether or not they've solved some already critical porting pieces
that FreeBSD lacks in this architecture?
-Garrett