> I agree this should be discussed in terms of its long-term precedent and > guiding principles for future porting and EOL issues. That said, I wouldn't > confuse a full-fledged port with a CPU variant: PPC is new *ISA*, whereas > US-I is a tiny variant from another CPU we still support, US-II, and has > the same ISA. So you have a whole raft of issues that don't come up here, > e.g. > > - disassembler support > - DTrace ISA support > - linker ISA support > - librtld_db ISA support > - procfs ISA support > - mdb ISA support > - and the like ...
No argument here. I didn't intend to imply that the two were the same in this respect, just that they both represented cases where community projects are not necessarily aligned with Sun's business needs. Further, it was 32-bit SPARC kernel support in particular that I was thinking of as having potential "long-term impact" on Sun's resources. -- meem _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
