On Aug 22, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] > > On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy <kmacy_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and >> developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v >> is a very interesting platform for developers doing SMP work, I >> simply >> do not have the time or energy to maintain it. If someone else would >> like to step up and try his hand I would be supportive of his >> efforts. >> In the likely event that no one steps forward by the time that 7.1 is >> released I will ask that it be moved to the Attic. > > Since there are no other current SPARC CPUs that FreeBSD can run on > (the US-II has been obsolete for about 6 years and FreeBSD won't run > on any more recent sun4u chips), that will also remove the > justification for maintaining a SPARC64 port. Marius has been doing some great work towards US-III support. I have FreeBSD/sparc64 running on Netra SMP with US-III CPUs. While the code is not in SVN, It's in Perforce and from what I can see, it's in a very good shape. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Fri Aug 22 2008 - 16:00:12 UTC
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