Sean Sprague wrote:
Casper,
When Solaris 10 came out, the sun4m architecture was no longer
supported. But out of curiosity I
was wondering if it would be technically possible to do a build for
the old sun4m machines?
The sun4m MMU code and several of the sun4m specific devices were
all removed from the source tree and are not part of OpenSolaris.
Could the objects for the sun4m MMU code and old drivers (eg. qe) at
least not be put into the closed hierarchy under the heading of "stuff
we are never going to open" just to allow people with sun4m systems to
have a OpenSolaris installation, if they have no other hardware
available? Another optional tarball?
Regards... Sean.
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Solaris engineering doesn't compile sparc kernels 32 bit any more; it's not
interesting. Given the vast mountain of projects to attack, reviving ancient
hardware (obsoleted 10 years ago w/ the introduction of UltraSPARC) is so
far down on the list of things to do it will realistically never happen.
Sun4m support was removed early on in Solaris 10 development (build 23),
most of the intereresting features in Solaris 10 never ran on sun4m.
Used UltraSPARC hardware is cheap; I just saw a Ultra 2 w/ dual 330 Mhz
modules & 1 Gig of RAM on Ebay for $165 (Buy-it-Now). This machine
would run circles around any sun4m machines.
Computer hardware does become obsolete; sun4m has been there for a while.
Sorry -
- Bart
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