As Solaris is booting up on the PowerPC ODW (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=9554&tstart=0 ), lots of people are asking about Embedded Solaris on PPC. There has been a discussion (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=35061裵 ) last year, and we would like to have this thread to continue the discussion, both in the technology and market asepct.
"Companies using Solaris as an embedded operating system include Kodak (digital print stations), Texas Microsystems Inc. (telephony servers), Bay Networks (switching hubs), Codonics (medical image printers), and Siemens (telecommunications transmission systems). " ( http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1995-10/sunflash.951023.7253.xml <http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1995-10/sunflash.951023.7253.xml+>), yet this was in 1995 :). Also in http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3440171 (2004), people discussed this topic and one of the promising area is the "combination of real-time Java and the Solaris". As solaris is booting up on powerpc, we see more and more interest is coming. So it has market in the past and interest now. in the technology aspect, several issues have been identified (see Joerg replies in the earlier thread), such as how to scale down solaris, which has lots of baggage used for scaling up in server, to support low-power, small memory footprint and real-timeness; the support for drivers for embedded peripherals; and ppc/arm port, which is booting up:). If somebody can point to some docs about how linux or *BSD are ported to embedded devices and how thoese issues are addressed, that would be great. comparative study of them can always lead us into the internal issues. Jan Setje-Eilers has a webblog about shrinking solaris: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/setje?entry=post_new_boot_solaris_on <http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/setje?entry=post_new_boot_solaris_on> , which may be a good starting point to work on this. Comments? Thanks Noah -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20060602/cdc3bbc8/attachment.html>
