Hi Joerg, Sun is still interested. Tom Riddle and his direct report,
Roger Meike, are very interested in moving this ahead and so is
Genesi. We are all waiting for the first code. We know Tom and a
small but active and dedicated Sun Labs team have been working on
this for months. Sven Luther has been at the ready and assisting Sun
Labs as required and where we can. Gerald and Sven spoke to you in
early January. We chatted with you once we were back in the States
in February. We have not forgotten about you. It is simply a
difficult task and involved a lot of work. It *is* coming. Thanks
for your patience. We will do everything we can when we can!
R&B
On May 7, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am not sure wht you like to achieve here...
I'm trying to advocate expanding the meaning of "appliances",
with respect to OpenSolaris, so that as a community or forum
it has a better chance of matching up with more projects.
If we like to support embeedded systems with Solaris we need to
do several things:
- We may need to start supporting a static kernel or other
features that allow to make the kernel smaller.
- We need to support drivers for typical embedded peripherals
such as CAN bus interfaces.
- We need to port OpenSolaris to typical CPU platforms that are
used in such devices such as PPC and ARM.
Note that I believe the port is the most important part, but the
port may
only be done in a reasonable speed in case it is done by many people.
In order to do this either Sun need to put a lot of people on a
related official
project or Sun would need to help creating the related infrastructure.
As (from my understanding) it would be important to have also non-
Sun people
working on the PPC porting project, these people would need a
chance to get
payed in order to be able to contribute a notibable amount ot work.
Cyril Plisko would (as far as I know) terminate his current job and
work as a
contractor for the PPC portif there was a way to pay him.
I could work on the project too if Fokus was payed for the project.
I do not demand money from Sun for this project but I would expect
that Sun
is supporting the creation of a multi company project pool that may
do so.
There are definitely some companies that are interested in a
Solaris PPC
port.
During the past 2 months, I did not see any activities from Sun
that could
support external help for the PPC port. As a result, I am now no
longer working
on OpenSolaris activities inside Fokus but helping an external
company to
port crypto-sign software to Solaris.
So my question is:
Is Sun still interested in a OpenSolaris PPC port?
Jörg
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