John Sonnenschein wrote: > SPARC is a primary platform for OpenSolaris-O/N ( if not the distro ), > and therefore everyone needs to worry about their code working on > them, so it's top-level. PPC/Itanium/zArchitecture isn't, so they'd > fit in an OpenSolaris/Alt community
I don't like this first class and second class division. I would *hope* that these alt-isa arch projects see themselves as "go bootstrap a port, get it working, and then do the dance to integrate the work into ON, rather than expecting to be permanent 2nd class players, always forced to maintain a pseudo-fork for their chosen processor. In other words, the MIPS & PPC (& ...) projects should be chartered with a goal of having the projects put themselves out of business by doing the bringup work and then integrating it back into the mainline source tree, giving us SPARC, X64, PPC and MIPS as first class OpenSolaris ISAs. -John
