Hi, On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 17/07/2011 11:10, Gert Doering wrote: > > From all I was able to gather, -modular / ION is dead. Lack of > > progress, lack of buy-in from other BUs, short-sighted management. > > Yeah, -modular left me feeling rather cold. Can't imagine why, but the > ability to restart the line printer daemon on my 6500 just didn't do it for > me :-)
But restarting the CPD was so useful!
> > XE is what the rumors told me the Sup2T would be based upon, but IOS
> > versions like "12.2(50)SY" very much sound like IOS-trains.
>
> Perhaps they are taking the 12.2(33) code train, compiling it up on the XE
> framework and calling it 12.2(50)SY? This is pure speculation, but there
> has been so much 6500-centered development over the last number of years
> that it would be fatal not to base the code on the SX code train. On the
> other hand, as XE provides a good quality development environment, why not
> use that as the host operating system? Probably easier than yet another
> IOS port to another chipset.
Indeed (on both). Now it would be nice to see a Sup2T boot log, to end
the speculation and see what's in there...
gert
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