[OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

McBofh james.c.mcpherson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 02:03:07 UTC 2011


On 23/06/11 11:52 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> Wow. They killed a lot of stuff. Not only 32-bit x86 support but tons
> of other stuff too. SPARC Workstation support has been killed off (no
> more UltraSparc I/II/III/IV support, no more Xsun and no more hardware
> accelerated OpenGL for SPARC) and a lot of legacy peripheral support
> for both x86 and SPARC is gone.
>
> Hopefully, OI won't be following along this path.


what, you still want to run parallel scsi 32bit-only drivers like
ncrs, which are poor (very very poor) cousins of glm?

McB.




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