[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

Gary gdriggs at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 16:24:22 PDT 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
> I would like to see the USI chips back in the game.  Your point about
> 32bit kernels is valid, but I wouldn't worry too much.  Anyone who
> actually wants to run an Illumos-based distro on an Ultra1/140 should
> know what he is doing anyway. :-)

Between OpenBSD, NetBSD, Debian, and a couple of other Linux distros,
I think the older SPARC architectures are pretty well supported  by
modern operating systems if anyone has an urge to keep their older
32-bit hardware in production.

-Gary



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