I dunno about that... Solaris already does pretty poorly in small environments, as it's become much more geared towards servers through time. I think it's a much more suitable task for the OS to run alongside AIX on big hardware where it shines, rather than small hardware where you can hack it in to working to some degree
On 17-Nov-07, at 5:11 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: > It seems to me that the PowerPC port, is currently the closest thing > we have to an embedded version of OpenSolaris. I'd vote for a HW > reference platform with a smaller footprint. > > With that in mind, why don't we target SBC's like these: > http://www.embeddedplanet.com/products/sbc.asp?_kk=embedded%20powerpc&_kt=6d68823f-b05a-4a9c-b050-12d707535e28&gclid=CID65dGa5Y8CFReQGgodcnE7CA > > -Brian > > P.S. - We already have excellent choices for servers with x86 and > Sparc. It's embedded that we are missing. (ARM and MIPS ports are > going to be much more work, than a general purpose processor like > PPC). > > On Nov 17, 2007 7:56 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > > > On 17/11/2007, William Kucharski <William.Kucharski at sun.com> wrote: > >> Ken Mays wrote: > >> > Somehow I think we should be looking at server grade technology > in > >> > order > >> > to go forwards. This means technology with multiple processors > also. > >> > > >> > I was thinking : > >> > > >> > BladeCenter S Express Model 8886E1U > >> > $4,499.00 > >> > >> Unfortunately, pursuing a port to POWER is somewhat different > from porting > >> to > >> PowerPC. The two architectures are not precisely the same, > though they of > >> course share the same DNA. > >> > >> The biggest issue surrounding a port to the POWER4, POWER5 or > POWER6 or > >> the PPC > >> 970MP is that they're multi-core CPUs and/or are typically used in > >> multiprocessor configurations. This poses a notable difficulty in > that no > >> current implementation of Solaris runs on a multi-core or > multiprocessor > >> system > >> with a weakly-ordered memory architecture. > >> > >> For example, on SPARC, Solaris runs in TSO mode (while Linux runs > in RMO.) > > > > For those of us that weren't aware of this subtle difference, > there is > > a great article here: > > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8212 > > > > and another top notch publication : > > http://csg.csail.mit.edu/pubs/memos/Memo-493/memo-493.pdf > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > > -- > - Brian Gupta > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org
