[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

[Jasse Jansson]

Is there a doc somewhere on how to set up a "official" build environment 
for SPARC ???

I have a Blade 100 that has not been switched on in the last two years.
Might try to make it useful again.
I need to check if I still have all the pieces to make it run, but I 
think so.
I'll check next week when I'm home again.


On 19/08/2010 10:28, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Matt Lewandowsky"<matt at greenviolet.net>  wrote:
>
>> I agree with Garrett on "x86 first, then see what breaks on SPARC", at least
>> while Illumos is young. The project is currently at a point where it needs
>> to be usable on at least one architecture. Unfortunately, the resources to
>> keep both in sync aren't yet there, I don't think. That means a decision
>> needs to be made as to which gets priority. I think everyone will agree that
>> x86 is the no-brainer answer.
>
> Starting this way may cause a similar desater as we see with the include files
> with interfaces from the kernel. In 2003 the Linux kernel developers started to
> destroy their include files (making them inconsistent when included from a user
> level application). If they had been chided for this early enough, there had
> been a chace to avoid the resulting problem.
>
> I strongly vote for fixing bugs early.
>
> This however means that someone needs to install a Sparc with the right sw base
> to be able to compile and report.
>
> Jörg
>