Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Matthew Macy
How much faster is a make -j32 than a make -j1? -Kip On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Brad <[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 runs Ultr

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 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 Fuji

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-08-23 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:45:08AM +0200, Svein Skogen wrote: > In 25 words or less, what are the major changes in 7.0->7.1 and 6.3->6.4 > for us end users? In more words, but pretty interesting: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/6-STABLE/relnotes-i386.html http://people.freebsd.org/~bma

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

RE: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Sevan / Venture37
> 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. _ Win New Yo

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 g

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' a

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

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 th

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 interpretatio

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-08-23 Thread Svein Skogen
Ken Smith wrote: > We're about to start the release cycle for FreeBSD-7.1 and FreeBSD-6.4. > The proposed schedule for the "major events" of the cycle is: > > Freeze August 29 > BETASeptember 1 > Branch September 6 > 6.4-RC1 Septembe

Re: Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable?

2008-08-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 14 August 2008 02:46:37 am Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:55:30 -0700 Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about Re: Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable?: > > XL> Could you please try disabling ACPI and boot? Additionally a 'boot - > XL> v' may reveal some useful information as well

[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2008-08-23 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2008-08-23 09:39:44 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-legacy.sentex.ca TB --- 2008-08-23 09:39:44 - starting RELENG_6 tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2008-08-23 09:39:44 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:40:05 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:40:05 - /

[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on i386/pc98

2008-08-23 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2008-08-23 09:37:05 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-legacy.sentex.ca TB --- 2008-08-23 09:37:05 - starting RELENG_6 tinderbox run for i386/pc98 TB --- 2008-08-23 09:37:05 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:37:29 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:37:29 - /usr/bi

[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2008-08-23 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2008-08-23 09:29:47 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-legacy.sentex.ca TB --- 2008-08-23 09:29:47 - starting RELENG_6 tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2008-08-23 09:29:47 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:30:13 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:30:13 - /usr/bi

[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2008-08-23 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2008-08-23 09:21:47 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-legacy.sentex.ca TB --- 2008-08-23 09:21:47 - starting RELENG_6 tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2008-08-23 09:21:47 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:22:16 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2008-08-23 09:22:16 - /usr/