On 11-Nov-07, at 11:07 AM, UNIX admin wrote: >> Is anyone other than myself interested in seeing an >> IA64/Itanium port >> of OpenSolaris? > > Would that be cool? Why, yes it would! > > Would it be a justifiable return on investment? No. > > Here's the deal: > > who's running IA64? Only two firms, sgi and hp.
And Bull, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, UNISYS, and a gamut of small beige- box server vendors > > hp's servers are WAY TOO EXPENSIVE to buy just to run HP-UX, let > alone (Open)Solaris. Take a look at USED rx Integrity servers on > ebay, even those are expensive enough to make one's nose bleed (as > much as I would love to run HP-UX on Itanium!) One could say the same about Solaris/SPARC, or AIX/POWER > Where it might make sense to run (Open)Solaris on Itanium, it would > be the sgi Altix servers. That's sgi's NUMAflex hardware with > Itanium CPUs, currently running a "sgi Propack" Suse Linux because > sgi is in so much financial trouble (and too stupid) to have ported > IRIX 6.5 to Altix. > > Has anyone heard anything about Polaris, the PPC port lately? Um, > nope. Why? Because once people got into the port, they realized that > it's a lot of work; and that's even with the existing prior work > done by Sun for Solaris 2.5.1. They're making great strides currently... Polaris boots userland code and the main thing keeping development back is a lack of a good simulator or accessible hardware ( the second won't be alleviated by an ia64 port, but the first will ) > If you can muster enough developers to work on the port of > (Open)Solaris to sgi Altix, then sure, go for it. But where are you > going to get the people who know enough about Altix hardware? sgi's > hopped up on Linux, I doubt any help would come from them. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
