Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 00:21:24 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sun4v@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping sun4v as a platform Message-ID: <20110510222124.GA35687@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimUpeESJcHN75Vd=gZdXZzA5QPz-g@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimUpeESJcHN75Vd=gZdXZzA5QPz-g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:35:21AM -0400, Attilio Rao wrote: > I tried to look to a previous discussion on this and I failed to > locate one, thus let me raise the point here. > > As I'm working on on largeSMP support, I was wondering how much sense > makes to fixing sun4v for this. > Besides having 'tinderbox/universe' working, not so much it seems. > The code is pretty much rotting and marius@ said explicitely that an > effective effort on that platform should probabilly be more similar to > what OpenBSD does with it. Actually I just said that there should be a combined sun4u+sun4v codebase like both Linux and OpenBSD have in order to reduce duplicated code and to ease maintenance. I didn't imply one of them has superior support for sun4v that we could lift or some such. > He also is in favor of dropping the support > entirely, right now. No, I just said I'm not against dropping it, nothing more. Marius
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