Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
AMD Geodes are 32-bit only. I haven't heard any mention that they
will _ever_ be 64-bit. But, honestly, this and the Via chip aren't
really ever going to be targets for Solaris. That is, they simply
aren't (any substantial) part of the audience we're trying to reach
with Solaris x86.
Didn't know our audience was made up of CPUs :) I like to think (when
in a good mood) that we are trying to reach creative people who can
take OpenSolaris where Sun haven't imagined or been able to.
-Artem.
Then let those folks fix the problem. The issue here is what amount of
effort _Sun_ can put into fixing 32-bit Solaris so as to enable ZFS to
comfortably run on it. We (Sun) aren't preventing anyone from moving
OpenSolaris in a direction that Sun hasn't contemplated (or decided).
But, we can't accommodate everyone's desires, so we pick what is
important to us. And, the 32-bit only embedded market (which is where
the Geode and Via chips are targetted) isn't on our immediate target list.
That's the Joy of OpenSource - if you want it, fix it! But don't
expect anyone else to ever do it. ;-)
-Erik
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