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

[Jerry Kemp]

Thanks Bob,

I know ARM is a popular platform, I keep holding back from exploring further as 
every time I look into it, it seems that one of the distro's is close to having 
a somewhat functional port.

Jerry


On 03/20/17 02:26 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 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