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 a very interesting platform for developers doing SMP work, I
simply
do not have the time or energy to maintain it. If someone else would
like to step up and try his hand I would be supportive of his
efforts.
In the likely event that no one steps forward by the time that 7.1 is
released I will ask that it be moved to the Attic.
Since there are no other current SPARC CPUs that FreeBSD can run on
(the US-II has been obsolete for about 6 years and FreeBSD won't run
on any more recent sun4u chips), that will also remove the
justification for maintaining a SPARC64 port.
Marius has been doing some great work towards US-III support.
I have FreeBSD/sparc64 running on Netra SMP with US-III CPUs.
While the code is not in SVN, It's in Perforce and from what
I can see, it's in a very good shape.
FYI,
--
Marcel Moolenaar
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