Hi,
I saw this part on the Interview on onlamp.com:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html
"Do you plan to port OpenBSD to UltraSPARC T1 too?
Mark Kettenis: Eventually, yes. However since these machines have
multi-core CPUs we cannot fully support them until we have sparc64 SMP
support. So getting multi-processor support is higher on the priority
list right now. We've received some hardware donations that will help.
Support for the new PCIe-based machines is already working though, and
will appear in OpenBSD 4.2."
Is that for real?
I am only asking as if that really was going to happen and someone is
really interested and working on it and make that real and also if more
hardware would help this, I would be welling to get one unit to a dev
that would actually make that happen for real in a decent time frame.
Obviously I would love if other would step in to help pay for one, but
if not, then so be it. However, time is the essence as well here for me
anyway as the cost is lower now.
There is a special from Sun that end May 7, so I could get one unit from
here:
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/index.xml
Obviously not the full blown one as I can't afford that, but the base 6
core one that is in special now for $2,535, I could swing that if that's
for real.
Need a quick answer however as the special ends on the 7 of this month.
One interested and if Theo confirm that, I would swing it to make it
happen. Fell free to contact me privately for this. As long as it is a
place that Sun will ship directly from the online order, I would do it.
I know for one, I would love to fully run OpenBSD on that box in a very
stable fashion! (;>
So, yes that's selfish as well of me to do that, but I know I can't make
it happen code wise anyway.
If no interest, or time to do so, then sorry for the noise and just
ignore this.
Best,
Daniel
