+1 On 30-Mar-08, at 12:02 AM, William Kucharski wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
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