illumos-gate (and its descendants that I'm aware of) all have the sun4u
platform support that was ever open sourced. There are some platforms that
have never been open sourced, but that does not include all sun4u platforms.
Sadly, I think very few -- if any at all -- frame buffer drivers were ever open
sourced. I think this is where Martin's work had previously been focused. I'm
not sure about the work he's done more recently, which seems to be more focused
on packaging stuff.
- Garrett
On Aug 17, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Joerg Schilling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The sun4u support was removed long after the source tree closed,
>> unless you broke something your OS works fine on those machines.
>
> Correct, but Sun removed drivers that people with sun4u machines like to have.
> This is e.g. why Martin likes to start with snv_125 - I am quoting Martin
> here.
>
>
> Having brought back the Sun-removed SVr4 package support in SchilliX-ON, I
> know that this kind of work is nothing you can do quickly. But maybe, this
> driver task is simpler, as I expect the drivers to be in a consistent state
> before removal. The SVR4 package meta data on the other side was never in a
> consistent state as the SVR4 package meta from Sun did depend on files that
> where neither in the source tree nor in the closed source tarball.
>
> BTW: the IPS meta data was also in an inconstsient state but IPS silently
> ignores missing files....so the package creation did not abort. Did you fix
> that for Illumos?
>
> Jörg
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