Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ok guys, Lets kill this one. I did asked that question simply out of curiosity more then a week ago and I got the answer. End of story. Like I said then, I was just curious. Sure I would love to see OpenBSD running on the 32 simultaneous processing threads of the T1 processor, but Theo is r

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
We don't even have any documentation for Sun's ethernet chipsets, even the old gem found in machines which showed up on the market about 8-10 years ago. Let alone their newer chipsets, or their pci chipsets. And largely we suspect we don't get documentation because it would show how buggy their ha

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-23 Thread Siju George
On 2/24/06, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:08:26 -0700 Theo de Raadt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Its actually not "only processor documentation" though. Its docs > > > for the new sun4v arch, specifically so people can port operating > > > systems to it. Operatin

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-23 Thread Adam
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:08:26 -0700 Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its actually not "only processor documentation" though. Its docs > > for the new sun4v arch, specifically so people can port operating > > systems to it. Operating systems run on the hypervisor, not on the > > hardwar

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Its actually not "only processor documentation" though. Its docs for > the new sun4v arch, specifically so people can port operating systems > to it. Operating systems run on the hypervisor, not on the hardware. > > http://opensparc.sunsource.net/specs/Hypervisor-api-current-draft.pdf > > That

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-23 Thread Adam
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:59:05 -0700 Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No this is only processor documentation. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113398028623246&w=2 > > Let me be clear. > > Imagine if we only had processor documentation for Intel-based > machines: Its

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
> No this is only processor documentation. > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113398028623246&w=2 Let me be clear. Imagine if we only had processor documentation for Intel-based machines: This is what a real i386 dmesg would look like. Look carefully. And I am not making a joke.

Re: OpenSparc T1

2006-02-14 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:04:12AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > No punch intended to anyone at all, but I was just curious about the new > Sun T1 processor and initiative. > > They release today their spec and documentations on the Internet: > > http://opensparc.sunsource.net/nonav/opensparct1

OpenSparc T1

2006-02-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
No punch intended to anyone at all, but I was just curious about the new Sun T1 processor and initiative. They release today their spec and documentations on the Internet: http://opensparc.sunsource.net/nonav/opensparct1.html Is this is the type of documentations that OpenBSD is requesting fro