On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:56 AM, BERTRAND Joël <[email protected]> wrote: > Knut Petter Ølberg a écrit : >> >> Really a pitty, as I would really like to continue to run a updated >> debian ldom on my T5140 (sorry about offtopic with regards to sparc32). >> I guess the problem here wasn't really access to hardware but lack of >> manpower to do the porting? > > > Don't forget that Sun^WOracle does not provide all required > informations (and errata due to silicon bugs) to have a stable kernel. On > sun4v, only Solaris and maybe OpenBSD run fine. Some efforts are done in > NetBSD to support sun4v, but kernel is not ready. Sparc32, UI and U2 specs > are public but for UIII, only UIII+/Cu and errata are public (not UIII > specs). I never seen any UIV doc. For sun4v, I don't have all required docs > to try to fix actual issues.
I thought sun4v is pretty good covered in the OpenSPARC documentation (UA2005-current-draft-HP-EXT.pdf and UA2005-current-draft-P-EXT.pdf). What is missing? Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACXAS8C2EKGJUvOnm8wHbS=royvvhv07xvyk2c6c1peqiuw...@mail.gmail.com
