>On 2/15/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Cyril Plisko wrote: >> > Having Solaris on zSeries will be a nice complement to Polaris which >> > targets IBM pSeries among other platforms, leaving IBM no options >> > but one - to embrace Solaris across all the product range:) >> > >> > OpenSolaris WD Edition :) >> >> Will "Polaris" be 64bit only or will it be the "usual" 32bit+64bit >> chimera like in Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/AMD64 ? > >The bring up is done on 32 bit platform (G4). When we'll get it up the >next step would be adding 64bit for G5 and similar POWER
If power was a 64 bit only platform then a 64 bit only port would make perfect sense; but since there are also 32 bit only platforms, the chimera approach makes more sense. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
