[OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

[Ron Dawson]

Can we run OI on UltraSPARC?  I thought it was still only x86?  I have a
number of old SunFire V250s, V240 and V440 that I'd be interested in
keeping going for a while longer yet.  I had missed the notice about the
official Solaris 11 not working on UltraSPARC III/IV.


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:

> Come to think of it... do you think OI will be able to continue supporting
> usparcIII if Oracle doesn't?  I don't really care since I really should
> retire that beast but others might like to know.
>
>
> On 11/10/11 02:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> On 11/10/11 11:09, Daniel Kjar wrote:
>>
>>> First thing I noticed when I tried to install it on my blade1000 was that
>>> support for ultrasparc III is now gone. Won't even let you install.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that was announced a while ago on the EOF pages.   Support for
>> 32-bit x86 and UltraSPARC II/III/IV CPU's were dropped for Solaris 11.
>>
>>
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