Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-12 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Sherry. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-09 Thread Jan Setje-Eilers
Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. +1 As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Sherry Moore
I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We believe the only sensible and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread James C. McPherson
Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We believe the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Sherry Moore
Thanks Jim! Bensley is the code name for Intel's new Xeon platform centralized around the Blackford memory controller hub, which supports Dempsey, Woodcrest and Clovertown processors. Google should be able to provide plenty good references. This one has a pretty picture:

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread John Sonnenschein
Wasn't the recent intel/sun announcement to do precisely this thing? I mean, rock on if your plans are to offer more than Sun+intel are willing to On 8-Feb-07, at 1:02 PM, Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Ian Collins
Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We believe the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Walker
Ian Collins wrote: Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:02 pm, Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. +1 -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Ian Collins
Jim Walker wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Would there be some form of hardware support for community contributors to this project? To do any serious work on a project like this would require a $2000 system for testing. I don't think it could work with a remote box. Ian I don't know about

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ian == Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about physical access, but we should be able to provide remote root access and remote power cycle, which may get you farther then you think. Ian Yes, that would be OK for testing loadable modules, which I guess Ian most of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread James C. McPherson
Mike Kupfer wrote: Ian == Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about physical access, but we should be able to provide remote root access and remote power cycle, which may get you farther then you think. Ian Yes, that would be OK for testing loadable modules, which I guess Ian