> -----Original Message----- > From: Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 星期五, 十一月 21, 2014 9:17 > To: [email protected]; Lloyd Dewolf > Cc: Alex McWhirter > Subject: Re: [discuss] Developing for SPARC > > The problem is finding a reliable distribution that can build and host > illumos-gate. > > There are a few distros that have some effort here — Igor Kozhukov > maintains DiLOS that I think has SPARC support, but it comes with > debian packaging and is quite experimental. > > I believe Peter Tribble has made some progress with SPARC on his > Tribblix distribution, but again I think it doesn’t use the same > packaging system (legacy SVR4 in this case I believe) and is probably > very experimental (I believe it has only Peter working on it at the > moment.) > > Probably the single biggest thing to help SPARC that any individual > could do would be to figure out how to get one of the mainstream > distros like OpenIndiana or OmniOS built for it — including > installation media. Given installable ISOs, I suspect that many of the > other barriers will fall away. > > (The problem with OI has always been lack of sufficiently interested > people to do the rather large job of keeping a functional SPARC build > of their distribution alive.) Omni is maintained by OmniTI, and I > believe they are strictly an x86 shop.) > > The *other* thing that would be enormously useful would be figuring out > if we can boot any opensolaris on a qemu system running on any of > illumos-x86, MacOS, or Linux. (Ideally it shouldn’t matter that much, > but I don’t know how easy it is to use qemu SPARC emulations on > different systems.) While this would be quite slow, I doubt it would > be a lot slower than some actual SPARC hardware, when used with a very > fast modern x86 CPU on the host. :-)
There is hacking to run Solaris 2.6 sparc on qemu. http://brezular.com/2012/02/17/installation-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-part2-solaris-installation/ Fred ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
