On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:35:28AM -0700, TAKI, Yasushi/JPC wrote:
> 2010-05-14 (金) の 08:55 -0600 に Jerry Jelinek 
> さんは書きました:
> > On 05/14/10 07:58, TAKI, Yasushi/JPC wrote:
> > > Hi,All.
> > >
> > > I heard this PSARC from my friend.
> > >
> > > http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/
> > >
> > > "PSARC/2010/169 EOF lx brand"
> > >
> > > What does this mean?
> >
> > It means that we're going to remove the support
> > for the lx brand from the next release of Solaris.
> > The reasons are primarily because the brand never
> > received any real adoption, it is outdated since it
> > only emulates the 2.4 kernel, and there is a high
> > cost associated with maintaining this.  There are
> > also better better alternatives now that weren't
> > as widely available when the brand was developed.
> > In particular, VirtualBox does support the 2.6 kernel
> > and is freely available on OpenSolaris.
> >
> > > I have many lx branded zone.
> > >
> > > Can we use lxbrand, in future?
> > > Or, lxbrand will be alternative of lx26 brand?
> > Since the code is already open source, people outside
> > of Oracle can continue to maintain it, if they are
> > interested, or even enhance the code to properly support
> > the 2.6 kernel.  I would be happy to sponsor any
> > bug fixes into the base ON code that are needed for
> > the brand to work.  If there is any interest in that,
> > please let me know.
>
>
> I am interested.
> But I have no time, and I don't know lx-brand and thease stacks enough.
>
> What should I do ,next ?
>

i don't mean to discourage you, but if you want to start maintaining the
lx brand i recommend the first thing you do is free up a lot of time,
since it will be a lot of work.

ed
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