Hello Rainer, Thanks for submitting the request to revive the UltraSPARC I support. Rather than integrating this into the ON consolidation due to engineering constraints (see below), the best way forward is for this support to be maintained either by yourself and/or an interested team of OpenSolaris folks as an OpenSolaris project. This would be hosted on the www.opensolaris.org website. Have a read of http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/ as a starting point for this; posting to the opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org would be the point to start the ball rolling for the project.
Supporting old hardware from an engineering perspective is non trivial. The reasons being that the older hardware may not actually support the newer facilities within ON, for example the FMA framework and dtrace or they may support it in some limited fashion and thus cause exceptions within the code base. Having the older hardware would increase the test matrix and as such increase the time it takes for the tests to complete. Maintaining that many old machines/systems may also prove to be unreasonable (thinking about hardware failures here). Cheers pete Assitant Tech Lead for Nevada
