Stephen Hahn writes:
> I am uncertain that a sponsor will successfully manage to integrate
> this fix. The decision to drop US-I support was made for a complex of
> reasons, some business, some legal, and has had various follow-on
The business reasons shouldn't be much of an issue for OpenSolaris, since
there's obviously considerable community interest to have the support
revived, and the changes proper (apart from packaging etc. changes) are
only a few lines.
I had several discussions about this in the past, e.g. with Glen Weinberg
and during S10 PlatBeta. I don't know about the legal issues, but again
I'm not sure that they need to affect OpenSolaris at all.
> effects (like elimination from test farms, among others). One
If so, a possible solution would be to leave the code in the OpenSolaris
code base, but declare it as unsupported (perhaps issuing a warning as I
asked at the start of this thread). This is what DEC/Compaq did in the
past when they declared several older Alpha CPUs unsupported in their
lastest release of Tru64 UNIX V5.1, but left the support code in so anyone
who wanted to could run it at his own risk. I like this approach much
better (and it is certainly more welcome in the community) than ripping a
few lines of code out and leaving all the users of US-I machines in the
cold ...
> outcome, perhaps undesirable, you may be constructing the first
> long-lived patchset, which is itself an interesting discussion.
... or having to carry forward such a patch set indefinitely. This seems
to be just a waste of time.
Rainer
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