On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdam...@sun.com> wrote: > 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.
This is Opensolaris.org, not sun.com and the ON code is shared between Sun and the community. > 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, which can quickly be revoked if I appeal the case. I DO have such a laptop and I do not like the ad hoc removal of SPARCLE support in such a short time frame. > and its just a code review at this point. Garrett, did you ask Tadpole to comment in the ARC case? Did you ask if any person in the community wishes to make a SPARC laptop distro? Irek _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
