[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 00:56 +0200, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore writes:
> > I have no plans to support any SPARC processor older than than a sun4u
> > Ultra-II.  (We could reinstate Ultra-1 cpus, but they are insecure
> > unless you run in 32-bit mode, and *no way* am I going to advocate
> > supporting 32-bit sparc kernels anymore -- we just don't have the kind
> > of resources that effort would take, and the payoff would be minuscule. 
> 
> 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. :-)
> 
> 
> Cheers -- Volker


Volker, if you want to bring back US-I, feel free to check out the
diffs.  I don't mind reinstating the code if it isn't *too* onerous.
(It shouldn't be.)

	- Garrett