Sherry Moore wrote: >I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for >shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. > >As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make >Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We >believe the only sensible and the most effective way to pursuit this >goal is to do development in the OpenSolaris community. > >Our first effort will focus on the following areas on Bensley platform, >but will be ongoing as new processors and platforms become available: > > - Performance improvement > - CPU feature enabling > - Power management support > - Virtualization support > - FMA support (coming soon) > > > Would there be some form of hardware support for community contributors to this project?
To do any serious work on a project like this would require a >$2000 system for testing. I don't think it could work with a remote box. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
