> Sherry Moore wrote: > > >I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for > >shipping and future Intel processors and platforms.
+1 > >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. > That's what I keep telling the folks tasked with supporting our labs. We (Sun Solaris staff) often don't have the luxury of being able to see or touch the system we get to work on either. Somehow we keep managing. Remote power cyclers (not good for the machine long term, I know) and the ability to get someone on the phone who can tell you what the blinken lights are up to is usually all you really need. :) -jan _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
