On Nov 11, 2007 3:36 AM, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone other than myself interested in seeing an IA64/Itanium port > of OpenSolaris? > > My reasoning is that Solaris already runs on two of the 4 major > enterprise architectures (SPARC & x86/amd64) and a port to a third is > making strides recently ( I'm referring to the ppc32 port ). > > Since Sun already had an IA64 port underway half a decade ago, they > may be able to look in to the legalities of opening it back up. I'm > sure there's some sort of legal wrangling between them and Intel that > can go on, since Intel would undoubtedly love to see more ia64 > customers, and Sun already sells Solaris to HP's x86 customers. > > Failing that, of course, if anyone's interested in doing a straight-up > re-port based on the current onnv-gate ( or ppc-dev gate, if that > proves to be more portable ) that's an option as well. > > This port may actually prove easier logistically than the PPC port, as > there's already an accurate ia64 simulator ( it's called ski ) out > there, though it only runs on HPUX, Linux ( I haven't tried it with > brandZ ) & FreeBSD. > > > So, that in mind, any comments?
The project will not have a chance. The Solaris/IA64 project was canceled by the board after Intel announced that IA64 will replace SPARC and NOTHING will reverse that decision, not even the new Intel-Sun alliance. Even without the history I'd be a tough job to get the old Solaris/IA64 sources - we tried to convince the high-end platform group to release their sources for the 64k kernel project and invited them to join a research project lead by TU Vienna and sponsored with EU money. Sun rejected this high profile offer, even after offering free licenses for any patents created during this project. I doubt you'd have more luck with IA64. Holger _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
