Hi Rainer. BTW: Currently you can even install a default SXCE on US-1. More on that later.
I just need to go. And as more and more SPARC related questions are being asked, it looks like much fun. I'm late as always. But until now I have always kept my word. (Sometimes a few years delayed.) Until then the Sun-engineers can tell you the status. They are doing all the good work here :) Regards to all, nice day! Till soon. Martin On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Rainer Orth<ro at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > I'd like to know what the current plans are for supporting AI/Indiana on > non-WANboot capable SPARC systems (i.e. OBP before 4.17). ?The AI design > notes indicate that there may be NFS support in the future, which would be > a requirement for supportable installation on older SPARC systems. ?While I > know about a couple of published hacks to achieve an Indiana installation > on such systems, they are just that: hacks. > > The reason I'm asking is that I've been working on the (trivial) changes > for > > ? ? ? ?6414867 Revive UltraSPARC I support > > but it probably doesn't make much sense to have them integrated into Nevada > if Indiana is going to drop support for many more older (still far more > recent) systems by upholding the WANboot requirement. ?I'd consider such a > requirement a fatal flaw since many of the affected systems (like a Blade > 1000) are perfectly capable of running OpenSolaris and such a decision > would unnecessarily deter many developers. > > Regards. > ? ? ? ?Rainer > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
