[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

[Martin Bochnig]

Hi Sašo,



> Oh, my curiosity certainly isn't worth changing your schedule for. I
> don't have anything running yet. I have a couple of older Netra 240
> machines (currently on S10) which I could use for some testing, but that
> will take me some days to bootstrap, so no need to hurry with the bins
> on your part. Whenever you are ready to make a workable release in your
> normal schedule is fine with me.



ok, that's fine. Because I still use my old 2010 nv125 workspace and
back then I already adapted text-install.
Two years it rested unchanged on my Blade 2000. And now I finish this.
As it is running, it gets merged with Illumos, which I also built,
just about 3 weeks ago.
That is: I check which SPARC-relevant legacy code was removed from
Illumos, that we might want again. I was told that not much got
removed, so it should be a no-brainer.

Hint to your Sol10 installation: In theory it is possible to run bins
built on 5.11 on 5.10, but among other libs most importantly libc got
at least one new symbol.
In the past I experimented with mounting /lib and /usr from another
5.11 machine over a running 5.10's /lib and /usr Or for example to
/lib0 and /usr0 (and then with LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD).
 and the results were interesting. But I don't recommend that.
However, as I no longer have a single 5.10 installation, I cannot
build Xsun on/for 5.10.


So either you install SXCE_125 to one of your boxes and then I give
you 5.11 test bins, or I rather would like to encourage you, until I
have the entire OS finished.
The problem during the last 2 years was, that I did lots of _other_
things. As I see you fellows waiting, I push priorities. After all, I
enjoy this stuff a lot, too.




Thanks,
   %martin