Brad Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently there was some talk about SPARC compatibility. > > I would like to make sure that Illumos continues to have proper SPARC > compatibility and would like to volunteer to make this happen. > > I'm a long time Sun guy. When I lived in Silicon Valley, I had a 4/280 > with a Kennedy tape drive and a couple of SMD drives. I just couldn't > keep dragging it around when I moved and so it is now been disposed > of. Plus, the power bill was getting pretty large. > > Currently I have an Ultra 10, Sunblade 1000, Sunblade 2500, and a > T2000. The Sunblade 2500 is my main home machine. When I need to use a > PC, I run SunPCI3. So far this has served me well over the years. The > T2000 is a new addition to the family and would like to retire the > Sunblade 2500 as I migrate over to the T2000.
I canot speak for Illumos, but SchilliX-ON is frequently compiled on a SPARC system to grant sparc compatibility. There is however a problem resulting from the fact that Sun removed some code to support specific Sparc hardware and the current code only supports sun4v systems. I believe that this code for older hardware should be retrieved back into the source base. If you like to volunteer for this task, you are welcome. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------- 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
