Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:39:29 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, kmacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sun4v arch Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0808232039i78fadb9bu7373e1c36f4f37a1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48B0BEC7.1070806@FreeBSD.org> References: <136a340a0808220719t3a170786s7fd4bcb662d0b981@mail.gmail.com> <48AED560.8010001@FreeBSD.org> <20080822225510.GI32539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <48B0BEC7.1070806@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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