[oi-dev] OI on SPARC???

[Joerg Schilling]

Sa?o Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love SPARC and I've got a bunch of unused SPARC kit lying around too,
> but unfortunately, for real-world performance, support, choice, ease of
> development and pure economic sense, SPARC is a dead platform. Intel ate
> SPARC's lunch, big time. With vendors like SuperMicro producing cheap,
> fast and well supported hardware on which we can run Illumos, going to a
> proprietary, expensive and single vendor-sourced solution (no matter how
> sexy) simply isn't an option for most deployments. A shame, really,
> considering the rich history of SPARC as a platform...

In a few weeks, the new SVr4 Pkg based Schillix will be ready and then building 
a Sparc based system should be feasable.

We need help from someone who has a sparc and who knows how to create a 
bootable system for recent OpenSolaris.

Jörg

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