[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

[Joerg Schilling]

"Volker A. Brandt" <vab at bb-c.de> 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. :-)

Doesn't this mean adding S-Bus support and support for Big-MAC ETH?

Jörg

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