The sun4u support was removed long after the source tree closed, unless you broke something your OS works fine on those machines.
-- Rich On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/182180/21175744-56998d87 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
