Re: sun4v arch

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:39:29 -0700
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_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
Received on Sun Aug 24 2008 - 01:39:30 UTC

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