+1 my qube votes +1 too XD
In fact, for optimal political success for this, I'd suggest making the MIPS qubes the primary target, since they were acquired by Sun with the entire Cobalt company On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Mark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seeking approval for a project for porting OpenSolaris to the MIPS > architecture. > Proposal: > Provide code changes, tools, documentation, and other necessary artifacts > for a port of OpenSolaris to the MIPS architecture. Movidis, a maker of > MIPS based components and systems has expressed interest in support of this > port, so it is likely that their products will be the initial supported > platforms -- support for other MIPS based platforms may follow suit. The > current project goal is to support the MIPS64 architecture, although the > MIPS32 ISA may also be a possibility. > Among other deliverables, it is expected that this port will include > integration of some or all of changes identified in the gccfss > project: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24934, and > preserved here: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~devnull/6515400/. There may be > additional key core kernel changes similar to those identified in the > PowerPC port project. Some of these changes were necessary for support for > a gcc based cross compilation tool chain. This cross compiler tool chain is > necessary for boot strap of the port, but a self-hosting, native gcc tool > chain is also a goal for the project. > A discussion list and source repository are also requested. > Mark > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
