On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:39 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > John Sonnenschein wrote: > > SPARC is a primary platform for OpenSolaris-O/N ( if not the distro ), > > and therefore everyone needs to worry about their code working on > > them, so it's top-level. PPC/Itanium/zArchitecture isn't, so they'd > > fit in an OpenSolaris/Alt community > > I don't like this first class and second class division. > > I would *hope* that these alt-isa arch projects see themselves > as "go bootstrap a port, get it working, and then do the > dance to integrate the work into ON, rather than expecting to > be permanent 2nd class players, always forced to maintain a > pseudo-fork for their chosen processor. In other words, > the MIPS & PPC (& ...) projects should be chartered with a > goal of having the projects put themselves out of business > by doing the bringup work and then integrating it back into > the mainline source tree, giving us SPARC, X64, PPC and MIPS > as first class OpenSolaris ISAs. >
Isn't that the goal for most technical oriented OpenSolaris projects? To bring themselves up to a point where they're just another part of the system? -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
