Gary Winiger wrote: >> 3.1 Project Requirements >> >> 3.1.1 General: >> 1. x86 platform support only. Sparc bits will be built, but >> there is no boot support for Developer Edition on sparc. >> > > I understand the emphasis here and have no issue with it. > I'd also like to understand why SPARC isn't architecturally > supportable. And if the intent is for future support. > SPARC is architecturally supportable. And the Dwarf bits will be built on both platforms. A decision was made by the developer edition planning team to not concentrate on SPARC for the developer edition releases at this time, so we have not developed boot support, i.e a SPARC developer edition boot flag for these releases. Along with this, the tools bits are not included on the SPARC DVD at this time. This decision is based on the fact that we would require multi-DVD install support if we added the tools as we are running out of space on the SPARC DVD.
As for SPARC support for developer edition, at this time there is no plan for this. This decision is left to the developer edition planning team. However, with Caiman in general we do plan SPARC support in particular when Caiman starts to replace more of the existing installer paths. sarah
