>On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:53:16PM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > >> Open source and free software for many participants is about scratching >> an itch. If you let people scratch their itch by enabling them to >> support their old hardware, the effect is that they learn about the >> source code and the project. Hence, it makes sense to help people to >> work on projects important to them, even if Sun does not see immediate >> value in their work. This is a more forward looking, long-term focus, >> than a short-term one. > >Good points all, and the same apply to other requests I've seen of >this type such as for sun4m support. If these pieces of functionality >had not been removed well prior to the release of Solaris 10, I'm sure >we would have released them with the rest of the operating system >(legal considerations permitting, of course).
One should also add that one of the reasons to drop sun4m apart from it being very old was that DTrace was next to impossible to get to work on those platforms. By and large, sun4m is missing needed instructions and the sun4m implementations have some bugs that get in the way. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
