Martin,
I hope you don't take any of the emails as negativism. I for one am very happy
that you are working on a SPARC distro. I wish we had an OI SPARC build as
well.
When you have a distro that runs on SPARC, and runs illumos-gate (or can run
it), and can build illumos-gate, then this will be a major accomplishment.
Having X on SPARC would be a nice touch, and help a number of users out, but
right now it *seems* that the state for those of us that don't have your bits
is that there is a rather clumsy and painful "upgrade" process to upgrade from
an older build of OpenSolaris to something running the current illumos-gate
bits. (Painful enough that I know only of a very small number of people who
have actually done it.)
Anything you can do to make this process less painful will be gratefully
appreciated.
- Garrett
On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Richard Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hopefully someone who has the amount of time will, eventually, appear, but
> thus far it's seemed unilkely
>
>
>
>
> How shall I understand this?
>
> What had stolen me many months (over many years) was getting Xorg to function
> at least a minimal bit on SPARC.
> Despite of these problems I released 3 basic LiveCD's for SPARC and 1 for
> amd64 from April 2006 to August 2008.
> So far MartUX has been the first and only non-Sun "Distribution" for SPARC,
> with a single exception, namely one MilaX release (see chapter in OpenSolaris
> Bible).
>
> If I told you on this list, that I worked on getting openXsun to function,
> and now it does work.
> And that I'm now in the progess of building OpenIndiana for SPARC, you only
> comment on that is, that:
>
>
> > Hopefully someone who has the amount of time will, eventually, appear, but
> > thus far it's seemed unilkely
>
>
> ?
>
> And this is all I heard from anyone from Illumos as a response.
>
>
> Maybe it was a mistake, that I didn't base it on an older nv such as nv_125,
> and call it MartUX or SolarFlare, or that I didn't join SchilliX.
>
>
>
>
>
> (people tend to get a long way there, but then realize they've been doing
> nothing else for a month, and they need to do other things...)
>
> -- Rich
>
>
>
>
>
> Yes, it is time-consuming.
> And I did do other things for 2 years.
> But if that's your "welcome back" message, then it disappoints me.
>
> But as I said: The main stumble stone to me (from my workstation focussed
> point of view) was getting a functional X11, as I have and always had
> Desktop users at system console in mind.
> And now with openXsun _nothing_ can stop me.
> And I can swear you, that I didn't keep a room full of SPARC test hardware
> without a purpose.
>
>
> But so much for writing emails instead of code.
> Some silence from me to follow.
> You hear from me later in August.
> And my next message, definitely still in August, will contain download links.
> On average I have only 3 hours per day for it. Otherwise it would be
> available faster.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> %martin bochnig
>
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