Hugh McIntyre wrote:
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
This platform is doomed from lack of resource to properly support, so
we should just remove it.
I can't comment on the webrev, but I guess the basic question is
whether Tadpole are still selling Solaris laptops (their website says
so, but it lists US-IIe and IIIi based products for which the CPUs may
not be easily available, so the page might be old). And whether there
are any issues w.r.t. Tadpole if their platform gets dropped.
Sun has no commitment to Tadpole to support these laptops. Tadpole has
their own copy of the source, and has historically shipped their own
customized version of the OS, for Solaris 8, 9, and 10 at least. I do
not believe they are still selling US-II based systems (either US-IIe or
US-IIi). In any event, they can continue to provide software support on
their own if they still need to -- they have the sources and expertise
to do this, as well as the experience of doing it in the past.
Btw, their customers are primarily military in nature, and are unlikely
to adopt OpenSolaris anytime soon. (Most of them were still running
Solaris 8 the last I checked -- which was a couple of years ago.)
For example, the ARC case 2009/538 does not really address this (and
it may not be appropriate for pubic debate).
Of course if the answer is "removal has been approved, and it's just a
code review question" then that's a narrower issue in which case
someone else needs to comment on the code review itself.
Removal *has* been approved, and its just a code review at this point.
- Garrett
Hugh.
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