The required comment period has passed and there has been agreement that the "Emerging Platforms" CG should be created.
An edited version of the original proposal, when the proposed group was to be called "Porting": ================================================== Description: A community dealing with issues in porting OpenSolaris to other architectures and systems and to issues surrounding OpenSolaris portability. Statement of Purpose: As OpenSolaris has matured, interest has grown in porting it to a variety of hardware platforms and processors. In addition to the efforts of the existing "PowerPC" Community, there are current or investigational efforts to port OpenSolaris to the IBM Z series mainframe (as a guest OS) and to the ARM processor, and there has been interest in supporting OpenSolaris on various platforms that are related to but will not be directly supported by normal Solaris releases (e.g. AMD or Intel SoC-based embedded systems.) In addition, various porting projects inside and outside of Sun have uncovered issues that would be well addressed as projects under the proposed Community umbrella, such as toolchain issues (GNU vs. Sun compilers, cross- compiling and cross-linking issues, etc.), assumptions made by current "common" OpenSolaris code that are actually hardware-dependent (e.g. that hardware always provides an atomic 64-bit compare and swap instruction) and issues surrounding the use of OpenSolaris for embedded systems (e.g. shortening boot time and reducing OpenSolaris' initial memory footprint and the number of packages it provides.) This area of investigation may also include projects to address issues that currently restrict OpenSolaris' portability, such as its reliance upon operation on a processor providing a strong memory ordering model. Therefore it seems the natural way to handle these issues is via the creation of a "Emerging Platforms" OpenSolaris Community. Many of these issues have come up in the course of work on the PowerPC port by the existing "PowerPC" Community, but those issues would be better served by a more general-purpose Community under which existing PowerPC work could be defined as a project. Therefore, the creation of this Community should also result in the dissolution of the "PowerPC" community, with its projects becoming projects under the "Emerging Platforms" community. (Existing PowerPC-related mailing lists will NOT be affected.) The initial assignments for the "Emerging Platforms" Community are: Facilitator =========== William Kucharski william dot kucharski at sun dot com "Emerging Platforms" Community Core Contributors ===================================== William Kucharski william dot kucharski at sun dot com Tom Riddle rarebitusa at yahoo dot com Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave dot org Karl Volz karl dot volz at sun dot com John Sonnenschein johnsonnenschein at gmail dot com Neale Ferguson neale at sinenomine dot net Current OpenSolaris Core Contributors ===================================== William Kucharski william dot kucharski at sun dot com Tom Riddle rarebitusa at yahoo dot com Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave dot org ================================================== William Kucharski
