Hi Jack,
Jack Schwartz wrote: > *Attendees* > > Ginnie, Sue, Mary, Sanjay, Barbara, Karen, Dave, Jan, Alok, Jack, Jean, > William, Sundar, Joe, Tycho, Greg, Evan > > *Notes* > >> 1) Welcome >> - Purpose of the Install support for SPARC project > - Provide a working sun4v OpenSolaris distribution, > based on IPS SPARC packages, in January development build > - Build and install the SPARC distribution using the tools > we've developed. (Adapt the tools to SPARC) > - Combined effort of people on DC, AI and Snap projects, plus... IPS ? ;-) Seriously, I am thinking if it might make sense to invite somebody from IPS team who is in charge of Sparc IPS repository to join the meetings. As I am not familiar with what changes are involved in that area I assume (I might be wrong) that the first version of Sparc IPS repo will not be probably the final one and we might be finding issues once we start using it. I think that having somebody from IPS team on board who could cooperate with the other teams involved might help to speed up process of evaluating and solving potential problems. > - No GUI auto-installer Just a nit - no GUI Slim installer. > Development systems: > - Here in MPK we have 4 sun4v systems: > line1-t1000 > line2-t1000 > line1-t2000 > line1-t5120 > New system will be delivered to Santa Clara 11/24 > Ginnie has a BRM sun4v reserved thru January. There are also two sun4v machines owned by install team available in Prague: v4-t1000a-prg06.czech (8GB RWM) d4v-t5220a-prg06.czech (1GB RWM) Thanks Mary ! :-) > > AI: Server is architecture-neutral; no changes required for SPARC. > Same test should work for SPARC. If test team runs short of time, > skip testing of server as an X86 server can serve up SPARC bits > and can install a SPARC system. As far as x86 is concerned, AI server requires OpenSolaris as hosting system. There are no plans to support AI server on SXCE, as the strategy is to rather focus on non-Solaris OSes as other potential hosting platforms for AI server. I think the same approach should be followed for Sparc. Based on this, we actually can't fully test AI server on Sparc until we have OpenSolaris running on Sparc machine. > > DC: Testing should be platform neutral. I am thinking if there might be some issues with respect to endianness during process of building microroot. For instance, currently x86 microroot can't be mounted on Sparc machine, as UFS layout is platform dependent because of endianness. I am not sure if similar might apply to DCFS which will be used for Sparc. Speaking about process of building microroot, in order to unify it I think we could consider if we might switch to DCFS for x86 microroot as well (in Distro Constructor). Thank you, Jan
