+1 On 7/26/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC Date: Wed, July 26, 2006 14:01 To: opensolaris-discuss@OpenSolaris.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC This is a project that is already underway but no formal proposal had been written or posted to OpenSolaris.org. It seems reasonable at this time to make the proposal. I propose that a project be formed to port OpenSolaris to the PowerPC and POWER Architecture. The initial port should be tightly constrained to a specific hardware reference platform and based on a 32-bit single CPU implementation. Members of the Solaris community have already formed together in order to achieve this and we have selected the Genesi ODW Workstation as the hardware platform for a number of reasons. Much discussion was held and the decision stands within the community. Genesi has provided numerous units to facilitate the port work and Genesi staff work closely with the community in both the Solaris world and Linux. More information about Genesi may be seen at : http://www.genesippc.com/ The initial PowerPC hardware platform may be seen at : https://www.pegasosppc.com/special_odw.php?partner=blastware Code for the port was initially from the OpenSolaris project but Tom Riddle at Sun Labs has managed to gain access to the Solaris 2.5.1 port. Please see more info at : http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2006/2006-06-14-SolarisPPC.html The result of many weeks of work at Sun Labs is the initial stand alone PowerPC binary that may be seen booting on the Genesi ODW at : http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0055/index.html The initial GRUB2 bootloader may be found at : http://www.blastware.org/grub2/index.html The code ( pending ) and tasks may be found at : http://polaris.blastwave.org/ The community has accepted the name "Polaris" as the distro name. The last piece missing is this formal proposal for the port of OpenSolaris to the PowerPC architecture. Dennis Clarke Director Blastwave.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
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