Garrett D'Amore writes: > I have no plans to support any SPARC processor older than than a sun4u > Ultra-II. (We could reinstate Ultra-1 cpus, but they are insecure > unless you run in 32-bit mode, and *no way* am I going to advocate > supporting 32-bit sparc kernels anymore -- we just don't have the kind > of resources that effort would take, and the payoff would be minuscule.
I would like to see the USI chips back in the game. Your point about 32bit kernels is valid, but I wouldn't worry too much. Anyone who actually wants to run an Illumos-based distro on an Ultra1/140 should know what he is doing anyway. :-) Cheers -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
