> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> 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. > > +1, although note that there is already a PowerPC community. I think it > would be best to rename the latter to "Ports" or somthing similar, and then > have this proposed project housed within it. (One of the things we're going > to try to do once the governace doc is out of the way is rationalise the > number of communities. We have too many communities at the moment, and some > would be better off being recast as projects.) >
At this point I do not see a need to do anything at all other than focus on the real work in the code. Whatever is on the OpenSolaris.org site is really just a placeholder or an information page. It may be reasonable for admin purposes ( or just common sense ) to create a "ports" section on the OpenSolaris site but at the moment there are no other ports. Unless we see a port to either x86 or Sparc as a "port" when they already exist in both the "Solaris" commercial distribution. Are Belenix, SchilliX, MarTux et al seen as ports? I don't really know. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
