On 19/02/2014 15:30, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
On 19/02/2014 13:11, Jim Klimov wrote:On 2014-02-19 12:49, Joerg Schilling wrote:Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote:David, From my personal email archives, from both the ARM and MIPS Solaris ports, CZFS (Compressed ZFS) was mentioned for use for lower end/embedded systems.Are there currently acttive projects for ARM or MIPS support?Is anyone really interested in this to the extent of doing the work or paying someone qualified to do it? It might be "cool" to have OpenSolaris descendants on routers or smartphones...It's not only about mobiles, but with ARM64 there will be more and more servers with this architecture (AMD currently goes ARM), so it might be a valuable niche to have a full server stack there which could be commercially successful since there are not many competitors (seriously, only Linux ARM). Of course, a mobile spinoff from this (with Gnome 3?) would be easy to implement then, if there were not these closed-hardware chips (namely, Broadcom SOCs), which will prevent none-commercial entities to develop drivers (see Raspberry Pi, which, unfortunately, has such a closed SOC).
There's an interesting move at Broadcom, the former closed source VideoCore IV driver for the Raspberry Pi processor (and others) has been released as open source, opening the opportunity to fully port illumos to Broadcom-based mobiles: <http://blog.broadcom.com/chip-design/android-for-all-broadcom-gives-developers-keys-to-the-videocore-kingdom/> ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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