On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Matthew Wilby <mwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I looked at Sun Rays several years back, there seemed to be more of a > push to install SRSS on x86, I forget the exact reason, probably cost and at > the time T2000s weren't great. Are there really that many people using Sun > Rays on SPARC? >
I only have anecdotal evidence to go by, so I can't really say. >> >> > I'm not suggesting this should be a stable release. I'm not sure what >> > consolidation versions should be used. >> > >> >> I have confidence we can reproduce builds for 148. >> > > Is this based upon using Illumos (as per oi_148a) or Oracle ON? Either, if Andrzej's changes outside of ON for oi_148a are documented. There are fixes for SPARC in the illumos tree that would need backporting to oi_148's onnv-gate. > It would be interesting to know what the Illumos guys think about SPARC, and > if they see it as supportable long term. As one of the "illumos guys", I can state that continuing SPARC support is one of our long-term goals, and the availability of a proper self-hosting SPARC distribution would greatly benefit development. -Albert _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
