VIA C3 is not so powerful CPU for OpenSolaris in default version. Its power is in different area. Info from http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html :
# VIA C3 RNG The newer VIA C3 CPU contains a random number generator as an instruction. As of 3.3 this random number generator is used inside the kernel to feed the entropy pool. # VIA C3 AES instructions VIA C3 CPUs with a step 8 or later Nehemiah core contains an AES implementation accessible via simple instructions. As of 3.4 the kernel supports them to be used in an IPsec context and exported by /dev/crypto. As of 3.5 performances have been greatly improved and OpenSSL now uses the new instruction directly when available without the need to enter the kernel, resulting in vastly improved speed (AES-128 measured at 780MByte/sec) for applications using OpenSSL to perform AES encryption. I don't think that it's used in Solaris/OpenSolaris, but maybe I'm wrong. Same for me. Some stuff with Solaris at work and thanks to some great features hobby in free time. Of course nothing official, but you can see it even on Solaris that older HW even Sun HW (servers) is not supported in newer versions like Solaris 10. It's same with any commercial company. They are here for money not to please you. To receive money you must buy newer HW regularly so they are able to push you to buy new HW with end of support. But of course then you can use other projects if you still want to use older HW http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html or any other BSD or some Linux distros -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
