James C. McPherson wrote: > ... > >>> 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 >> > ... > >>> 3) Assumptions >>> - sun4v support only (no sun4u) >>> >> - current planning & scoping is done for sun4v >> only. If/When this changes, the schedule will >> change accordingly. >> > > I realise I'm rather late to the discussion, I'd like to > know whether the above notes represent an official > dropping of support for the other UltraSPARC lines > that we currently support with the NV gate, and if > so, when were you going to let ON know? > > If my reading of your notes is incorrect, could you > please outline what the plans are for OpenSolaris > on the UltraSPARC-II, -III and -IV lines. > The support for the sun4u is not dropped. Since there is not enough time to test all the platforms, only sun4v will be tested for the January milestone. All sun supported systems (sun4u and sun4) will be tested and supported for the Spring 2009 release.
- Sundar > > thankyou, > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20081215/580c522d/attachment.html>
