Fair enough, I stand corrected :) cheers -John On 30-Oct-07, at 7:47 AM, Matt Sealey wrote:
> 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 > >
