Hello Ken,

testing on VMWare or in public clouds won't help you at all as they are not 
emulating new hardware. The 'exotic' hardware we are talking here about is 
supposed to be for high-performance desktop/workstation systems and was 
released in May i.e. nearly 3 months ago.

Sure, it sucks that we don't support Core i9 yet, but given the size of the 
illumos developer community and focus, this is to be expected. The hardware 
will be supported sooner or later, like always.

When it comes to tge article I personally consider it unprofessional. That's 
all I am going to say on this matter.

Cheers,
Adam

> On 3 Aug 2017, at 16:08, ken mays via oi-dev <oi-dev@openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> You can use the Phoronix forums in relation to the article.
> Also, the OI wiki provides a way to report on our own 'test analysis' on 
> compatible OI-related hardware.
> 
> Phoronix is just another independent test and review website. Anyone can 
> report and test on what 'works for them' to 
> challenge what is said there or anywhere else.
> 
> You can simulate in VMware or virtual clouds, so having esoteric and exotic 
> physical hardware on hand/in-house is not a requirement.
> 
> ~K
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, July 31, 2017 11:45 AM, Aurélien Larcher 
> <aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> It needs 3 things - hardware, engineer and time. AFAIK right now there are 2 
> companies behind illumos who have more direct relations with hardware - 
> Joyent and Nexenta and those companies are still most likely interested about 
> the server class hardware.
> 
> Anything else is really about the community - if anyone has such hardware and 
> is willing to help with diagnostics and testing, then we can do something, 
> otherwise...
> 
> I do not know if we could better communicate how to report such issues ...
> 
>  
> 
> rgds,
> toomas
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