Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-23 21:39:34 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There really isn't any magic to bringing up a port. You compile it, install it, and then run it until it breaks. Once it breaks you spend a lot of time instrumenting the code to track down what went wrong. About what I expected.

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-25 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Maxim Sobolev 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

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-24 Thread Brad
I can't find anything that suggests NetBSD runs on sun4v. Their sparc64 port only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v. OpenBSD/sparc64 runs UltraSPARC-T1 and UltraSPARC-T2 systems... and the com port works too. ;) In addition to UltraSPARC III, III+, IIIi, IV and

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : Hash: SHA512 : : Kris Kennaway wrote: : | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v : | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Maxim Sobolev
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

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:52:07PM -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote: 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 :). My understanding is the the port is in a pre-alpha state due to unfinished work in the

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-23 22:40:55 -0500, Mark Linimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is the the port is in a pre-alpha state due to unfinished work in the kernel, so expecting there to be any userbase is premature. Except that the wiki gives a far more optimistic picture. All of our 'new'

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Kip Macy
Hi Peter, There really isn't any magic to bringing up a port. You compile it, install it, and then run it until it breaks. Once it breaks you spend a lot of time instrumenting the code to track down what went wrong. Then, depending on the amount of technical insight you have in to the issue, you

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Kip Macy
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Sevan / Venture37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find anything that suggests NetBSD runs on sun4v. Their sparc64 port only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v. OpenBSD/sparc64 supports the sun4v architecture has done for a while.

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Nikolay Kalev wrote: I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. Just so everyone is on the same

sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Nikolay Kalev
I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. ___

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Kris Kennaway wrote: | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low | level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel and | the

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-22 17:04:00 +0200, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel What