On 8/17/05, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/16/05, Noah Yan <noah.yan at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in porting Solaris to powerpc, and starting looking at the > > loading code of solaris for powerpc. > > Right now the focus is on the GRUB boot loader. > > > > > In genunix repos, does any coding work really happen? > > Not yet. Soon. :-)
Well, I am tinkering with the code a little. Some stuff is on svn.genunix.org and some is on my WC. > > > Why use a new name polaris, is it a new OS branched out from opensolaris? > > If it is just opensolaris for powerpc port, why not just use the original > > name? > polaris is the code name of the project. Distributions may or may not use the same name when it comes to it. The name itself was suggested by anonynous reader on my blog[1] quite some time ago and generated most emotions [both positive and negative :)] > It was a good idea at the time and everyone involved really liked it. > So its a name, like Fedora or zoot or any other distro code name. > > We all know that its OpenSolaris. Definitely. Regards, Cyril [1] http://mountall.blogspot.com/2005/01/opensolaris-on-powerpc-looks-for-new_28.html > > Dennis Clarke > Director and Admin for blastwave.org > dclarke at blastwave.org > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
