Re: the future of sun4v

2008-09-08 Thread Darren Reed
Marius Strobl wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:44:25PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-09-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
[cc list trimmed] On 2008-Sep-08 01:14:39 -0700, Darren Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical issue for freebsd (and any operating system for that matter) on rock is how well does the kernel scale to a system with that many concurrent threads? Right now it doesn't. And based on some

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
[Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
Well, let's see what architecture the upcoming Rock CPUs are; judging their feature list they appear to be a continuation of the Fujitsu sun4u line rather than a successor of UST1/2 :) That is not what I've heard. -Kip ___

the future of sun4v

2008-08-21 Thread Kip Macy
I apologise for cross-posting. 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