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

[Jacob Ritorto]

It's been a few years since I was hopeful about this, but if someone
revives this development, I'd exuberantly report results on my raspberry pi.


On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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