Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all the IBM POWER machines PrEP ? which would make PrEP machines ideal rather than "minimal" targets, as Solaris fits in big places well and small places poorly ( try booting it under a gig of ram, it's painful)
On 30-Oct-07, at 7:30 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > Tom Riddle wrote: >> Hi Jenny, >> >> No we haven't, but it looks quite interesting. If you'd like to >> know where we are with the port work please go the the ppc-dev >> project pages for the latest info. Tom > > QEMU would be nice but it's basically emulating a PReP system right > now, which is really irrelevant for a real PPC port of Solaris (the > number of PReP machines still alive out there ready to be booted > with a new OS is minimal at best). > > However since even the ODW port relies on the VOF, it could just > be ported to the QEMU PReP implementation, build a device tree, > and go from there.. > > -- > Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> > Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org
