[OpenIndiana-discuss] sparc support

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 1/23/14, 11:51 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>> Sure, why not. What do you propose needs to be done to facilitate a) and b)?
> 
> Hmmm... I thought the original post was by Ben, being willing to offer a stack of recommissioned Sparc hardware under the condition that it would be actively used for the Sparc port. So, if you would offer Martin online access to that hardware to get forward with OpenSXCE, it would at least help *one* Sparc port. And as Martin's work is open source, it could be used as a nucleus for OI/SPARC and thus get one step closer to b). No?

I already did offer a bunch of SPARC hardware, wired up, installed and
ready to go, at no charge, but no maintainers stepped up to the plate,
so I'm kind of skeptical there's interest in this direction. I could be
wrong and perhaps I just didn't reach the right people, but my effort
was made public on the mailing lists and in my experience, the response
was almost completely silence (one brave soul did ask for a root account
on these machines and I sent it to him, but he never used it).

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Saso