That's actually a really good idea, I didn't know Xen worked on itanium2 On 12-Nov-07, at 2:33 PM, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote:
> 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
