[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana on ARM - WAS:: the end is near? ::Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Jerry Kemp wrote:

> I think that the OpenIndiana discussion is spot on, and I am always excited 
> to see this discussion come back to a head.
>
> I believe I have reposted this previously, but in case you haven't seen it, 
> here is one of the earliest post from Erik Trimble @ Sun announcing that 
> OpenSolaris/Indiana, then current at the time, had been successfully ported 
> to ARM.
>
> Further study into this shows that there was also a special version of ZFS, 
> termed CZFS, that was optimized to function in low resource environments.

Illumos/OpenIndiana should only concern itself with 64-bit ARM, which 
does not need to function in low resource environments.  Supporting 
64-bit ARM is a much easier task than supporting 32-bit ARM, which has 
a plethora of variations.

Bob
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