> On 9/29/06, John Crowell <John.Crowell at sun.com> wrote:
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>> Bill, Cyril, Dennis, and Martin,
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> John,
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> see below.
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>
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>> I've just signed up to try to help Sun Labs work with the OpenSolaris
>> PowerPC community. From discussions I've had and emails I've seen, it's
>> clear to me that we can do a better job getting information out to you.
>> As key members of our community, it is my commitment to give you timely
>> information on a regular basis about what Sun Labs is committed to doing
>> in this space. I welcome the opportunity to work with you and will value
>> your feedback.
>>
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>> our community. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.
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>
> that is wonderful news indeed.
> While reading your mail, however, I've got feeling that you going to create
> yet another project for Solaris on PPC. Is it so ? If yes, what is the
> purpose
> of having multiple projects ?
>
> On 9/29/06, John Crowell <John.Crowell at sun.com> wrote:
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>> Bill, Cyril, Dennis, and Martin,
>
>
> John,
>
> see below.
>
>
>> our community. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.
>>
>
> that is wonderful news indeed.
> While reading your mail, however, I've got feeling that you going to create
> yet another project for Solaris on PPC. Is it so ? If yes, what is the
> purpose
> of having multiple projects ?
>
Cyril, I am not sure but it looks like John somehow works with Tom Riddle
and that this is the same source for that bootable kernel bits that we have
been waiting for. It will slide into the Polaris taskmap just fine
http://polaris.blastwave.org/wiki/PolarisTaskMap
and then we can continue to march forwards. I know that the Genesi people
are still on board and just a few nights ago I was chatting with some people
in the #OpenSolaris IRC channel that wanted onboard also. They want an ODW
( I was going to ship them mine ) and they want to jump onto the task map
and also to port to MIPs ( great - another port! ). Since they were actual
low level hardware people as well as an engineer from TadPole I took them at
face value that they were more than just angry. They knew their way around
JTAG debuggers and felt we could get our own and then single-step all the
way through the code if need be. They were actually interested and wanted
to see the Polaris project move forward on the Genesi ODW. The fact that
the Genesi gear is open ( hence the name ) makes it a thing of beauty. The
TadPole people seemed to know about the firmware already. We just need the
bloody tools to start with and this thing :
http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0055/polaris.jpg
was like a carrot dangled in front of our faces that got delivered any time
soon and next week and in a few days and we heard it all before.
No one was happy and that was before this email suddenly appeared.
I think that we still have the means to push forwards and the source code
will be released and dropped onto the OpenSolaris site on Monday ( we shall
see ) and then we can merge it into our SVN tree and start the process of
review. We clearly need to go over every bloody line and get the boot
process down to a fine art.
I also seriously question the memory management architecture and perhaps you
recall uzi? Well he got rif'ed but he wants to work on this also. He and I
chatted about some hacks that needed to be done. We need to review all that
code.
Let's just stay true to ourselves Cyril and keep plowing forwards when we
see the actual code.
Also, we need to post some objectives and guide lines that allow us to stay
on target. This is how the Blastwave project stays on its primary mission
and never wavers, we follow a few strict rules about package standards. The
homepage at http://polaris.blastwave.org/ needs to be updated with a
"project constitution" or some such as well as the names of key people
involved.
Now, we need to find Tom Riddle. He is a key guy. And speaking of key guys
where the heck is Guy Shaw and the documentation for what he did ?
Dennis Clarke
