Tom Riddle <tom.riddle at sun.com> wrote:
> I will ask around for a binary of the Workshop compiler, maybe we'll get
> lucky. However you all have had better luck digging around out there for
> these types of items. As far as source for that, the effort required to
> release it would surely be prohibitive.
Well, the WS compiler you mention would help the attempt from Martin who did buy
used IBM PPC machines ind installed the old Solaris PPC port on them.
The problem I see is that this is a little endian port and that it therefore
may not be used to compile our big endian port.
> --------------------------------------------------
> An FYI below
>
> Feature/Functionality differences between Solaris 2.5 and Solaris 2.5
> PowerPC:
>
> * No MP support
> The late availability of multiprocessor hardware relative to
> the Solaris 2.5 PowerPC schedule makes it unfeasible to
> provide MP support in the first release.
We currently only have one CPU on the Pegasus so we cannot implement MP on the
first run.
> * ATOK 7 replaced by ATOK 8
> The bundled ATOK 7 support which exists in Solaris 2.5 will not
> be ported to Solaris 2.5 for PowerPC. Solaris 2.5 for SPARC and
> x86 provides for ATOK8 functionality on a co-packaged CD, the
> Solaris Desktop CD. The ATOK 8 super-set will be ported to the
> PowerPC platform and included as part of the base Solaris
> 2.5_PowerPC release replacing the ATOK 7 support. A separate
> version on a co-packaged CD will not be required.
Google points to something that is Japanese character input. If this is
true, we just should ignore this topic as it does not seem to be relevent for
the porting arttempt.
> * No Support for Co-existence of an alternative OS
> Solaris 2.5 for PowerPC does not support booting an alternative
> operating system from disk as does Solaris 2.5 for X86.
Not a problem as we build out own boot environment.
> * OWN V3 (SunOS 4.x) BCP support not provided
> SunOS 4.X (Solaris 1.x) OWN BCP support is contained in one
> runtime package delivered as part of the OPEN LOOK desktop
> consolidation to the Solaris runtime product: SUNWowbcp. That
> package contains the set of OWN libs built for SunOS 4.x. For
> S2.5_ PPC, this is an omission from the OPEN LOOK desktop
> runtime consolidation delivery between S2.5 and S2.5_PPC.
As there was no SunOS-4.x for PPC and as Solaris does not provide the
include files that would be needed in order to create the related applications,
this does not seem to be a problem.
J?rg
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