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> > >On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> of interest in maintaining them, even Ultra-1 > support for those who > >> feel that they are happy to run the risk of 64 > bit on UltraSPARC-I. > > > >This, to me, would be a far more worthwhile > project. Yes, the US-I > >is long in the tooth, but I've never encountered > any problems with > >running my various Ultra 1s in 64-bit mode, so I > think that bringing > >back support for the US-I (in 64-bit mode only) > would make a neat > >OpenSolaris project. > > The changes are fairly minimal and the only driver > which needs > to be resurrected is "le" (possibly ledma), > > >OTOH, much as I love my SPARCstation 20 (running > Solaris 9), I think > >it is time to let sun4m rest in peace. > > I'm sure some over in MPK would happily dance on its > grave. > > Casper I tried to convince myself of sun4m support for many days. Until, I ported FlightGear to Solaris 8 and tossed up my hands towards my Sun SS5 workstation - I need more POWER!!! ;o> The Sun SPARCstation 5 is good for many things and served me well in the data center, yet I do miss playing around with VIS extensions and MediaLib for SPARCv8 and SPARCv9. I think sun4m support has a place in many educational and government institutes - as well as many data centers. Solaris 9 can carry the ball in that regard as well as Sun Studio 10. As for Solaris 10 adding back sun4m support???? I don't think it is unreasonable to want the current Solaris 10 release (b28) on sun4m hardware. Understanding what it took to get b28 (Solaris 11) where it is today, may have had some sacrifices that had to be made like sun4m support - but it doesn't mean clever ISVs can't find SOME way to bring Solaris 10 back to sun4m. I wouldn't expect Sun to do it anytime soon though.... ~ Ken Mays __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
