[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

[Garrett D'Amore]

There is some code that is *necessarily* different between sparc and
x86.

And then there are some details about Makefiles which are different.

Generally illumos *should* be ready for SPARC, but I probably have
screwed up a couple of the libc makefiles in my work, and I haven't
tested it.

If someone has a sparc configured with b137 or newer, with remote
access, then I can test.  I'm just too darned busy to set it up on my
own systems right now.  (And my SPARC systems are slow, noisy, and hot.)

	- Garrett


On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 21:32 -0500, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> **disclaimer - I am not a developer.
> 
> I am at somewhat at odds with the x86 vs Sparc discussion.
> 
> As an admin who has been using Solaris on Sparc since 2.3, and x86 since 
> 2.4, I have been told by Sun, time and time again, that Solaris  x86 was 
> compiled using the same code base as Sparc.
> 
> Obviously there are driver issues.
> 
> And there were loader issues/differences, but those should have come 
> into line with the Solaris 10 patch 127127-09, which moved Sparc to GRUB.
> 
> Has something come into play, as the last few bits of closed code is 
> being moved to something more open?  Is this where the x86 vs Sparc code 
> is differing?
> 
> I hope that this isn't a basic question that is obvious to everyone but me.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> On 08/18/10 18:52, Matt Lewandowsky wrote:
> > I agree with Garrett on "x86 first, then see what breaks on SPARC", at
> > least while Illumos is young.
> 
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