Matt, See Jon Tibble and Martin Bochnig for more extendibility.
Create SPARC distro fundamentally based on oi_148a (02/23/11) ISO. Anything SPARC related is considered 'server only' now. Text installer and a CD iso for minimal supported SPARC server hardware. All workstation/desktop SPARC capabilities is considered minimized supported work. Sys admin can grab XNV/JDS from IPS. ~ Ken Mays --- On Wed, 2/23/11, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [oi-dev] SPARC Text Installer > To: "OpenIndiana Developer mailing list" <oi-dev@openindiana.org> > Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 7:32 AM > Hi Matt, > > That's a really good idea. > > My only concern with your proposal is that you're biting > off a lot of > work in one go. As gber has pointed out there's quite a bit > involved in > getting the latest stuff working together (such as Illumos, > perl 5.10, > JDS, etc). > > It might be worth you re-creating oi_148 but for SPARC. > That would be > very useful for a lot of people, and serve as a first step > for doing the > next chunk of work. > > In theory if you were to apply gber's JDS patches and > follow the > documentation things should go fairly smoothly, and if you > do get stuck > help will be available more easily as its re-creating > something that was > done on x86. > > Does that sound of interest? > > Cheers, > > Alasdair > > On 02/23/11 09:06 AM, MATTHEW WILBY wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > > I've seen various people enquire about when we are > going to release a > > SPARC iso. > > > > What I'd like to propose is that we work towards > preparing a dev text > > installer, using Illumos and incorporating the the > hard work done on > > g11n, and a recent build of SFW etc. I think most > people are using SPARC > > based servers as opposed to workstations, so I suspect > XNV/JDS can > > follow at a later date if there is interest. > > > > I believe it's important to get a *development* > release out the door to > > allow people to test on the SPARC platform to provide > feedback, generate > > additional interest and give people an alternative to > Oracle tax. > > > > I'm not suggesting this should be a stable release. > I'm not sure what > > consolidation versions should be used. > > > > As I commented on IRC last night I'm willing to put in > the effort to > > help get this done, but will need some guidance along > the way. > > > > Bad idea or not, I'm hoping that this will get a > conversation going as I > > believe we need to make a decision about where we are > going with the > > SPARC platform..... > > > > :-) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matt (Wilbs) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > oi-dev mailing list > > oi-dev@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
