Dennis Clarke wrote: > >There has been a terrible lack of communication. That would be my fault >and I really need to get a few things out before people linch me. I don't >think I even spelled "lynch" correct there. > >(1) The team at Sun Labs is headed up by Tom Riddle and he has been > real busy in life lately. We do know that we have the initial > kernel booting on the Genesi ODW hardware. I have it here now. :-) > >(2) The code for that initial kernel is being reviewed by Sun legal and > it _really_ is supposed to be released real soon now. > >(3) The objective of the Sun Labs kickstart for the Solaris on Power > project was to help the community get the initial kernel AND tools > in place. It was Tom Riddle that said that there are maybe five > people in the world that could get this started. The Genesi people > provided hardware, significant firmware talent, an ATI certified > solution and whacks of support to make this happen. It happened. > > The code will be released to the open public after it has been blessed >by Sun Legal and then we can fully expect to have that console shell >session in rapid order thereafter. The Sun Labs people will not be going >away and I have every reason to suspect that the Solaris on Power project >will carry the same weight and importance as Solaris on x86 or Sparc does. > > If you read into that, if I may be blunt, there will be some really cool >things happening and that means talented people also. I am still waiting >to see the same things that you are. In the mean while we must not forget >that a pile of time and work has been invested by Sun and Genesi. > >Dennis Clarke >
Sounds good. However, I only have 4 weeks so called "holidays" left to create a distribution. Maybe you could share the code with me before it is ready to go public? marTux x86 / x64 can be release every minute, only improving details. marTin
