Sounds like a good charter. Gets my vote (even though I'm not on the
advisory board).
Obligatory disclaimer: I am an IBM contractor, and am a fan of IBM POWER,
MIPS and SPARC architectures.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mark Martin <storycrafter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM, William Kucharski <
> William.Kucharski at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> So if there is sufficient interest in a MIPS project, I would be happy to
>> get the ball rolling by formally proposing the creation of such a project
>> under the Emerging Platforms CG.
>
>
> I thought we had enough votes as it was: Martin B., John S., John G., and
> Cyril P. all registered +1 votes. Of course, I don't know if those were
> all from the Emerging Platforms CG, so thank you for picking up formal
> adoption of this.
>
>
>>
>>
>> I'd just need to know the charter and who wants to be the project leads.
>
>
> I had trouble finding a project charter template, so I stole a rare example
> from John P. (thanks John!). Besides myself, nobody else has stepped
> forward, so I would certainly welcome volunteers.
>
> ===== OpenSolaris on MIPS Project =====
>
> Name
> OpenSolaris on MIPS Architecture
>
> alias: mips-discuss at os.o
>
> Synopsis
> A project to port the OpenSolaris operating system to the MIPS
> architecture and related platforms.
>
>
> Sponsor
> Emerging Platforms CG
>
> Description
>
> Charter: To develop a port of OpenSolaris suitable for running
> on MIPS based platforms. Primary efforts will be focused on
> identifying a development environment and target platforms,
> creating changes to the ON consolidation to support MIPS32
> and possibly MIPS64 builds, and creating recommendations
> for follow on projects to produce a distribution as well as other
> necessary projects.
>
>
> Related Projects
>
> OpenSolaris for PowerPC port.
>
> Expected deliverables
>
> - Provide a cross linking build environment
> - Identify candidate hardware and software emulation
> platform(s) targets. One goal here is to provide a simple
> development environment that is easy to obtain and
> maintain.
> - Build of portions (or all) of the ON consolidation and
> provide kernel and userland portions to a minimal identified
> run state
> - Investigate and port tools used in the OpenSolaris PowerPC
> port project ("Polaris").
>
>
> Context
>
> ON/Nevada OpenSolaris Development Process
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/os_dev_process/
>
> Preliminary discussions regarding project proposal
>
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/emerging-platforms-discuss/2008-October/000002.html
>
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/2008-October/002532.html
>
>
> ===== end =====
>
>
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