I think this is a bit nuts, but if you really want to go down that path... You might want to look at Xen. The hypervisor has been ported to IA64 and Solaris has been ported to the hypervisor. There would still be a huge amount of work to do, but running Xen instead of bare metal might make the task a bit more manageable.
In addition to giving you a simpler model to port to, using Xen lets you begin by doing a domU port instead of a dom0 port. This would let you make a huge amount of progress even before tackling the painful early-stage boot problems on bare metal. Nils On Sat 11/10/07 at 18:36 PM, [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? > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
