John Sonnenschein wrote: > 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)
I don't think they've been PReP for years and years - POWER4 and POWER5 have been relatively CHRPy and are now fairly PAPRy. If you can find someone with older systems who wants to move to Solaris, you've got a usage case to port Solaris there and make a big deal out of it, but otherwise.. you may as well support OldWorld Macs for all the good it'd do the world. -- Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations > 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 >
