[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

Matt Lewandowsky matt at greenviolet.net
Thu Aug 19 02:10:11 PDT 2010


I agree. However, I think that getting it all buildable by something that 
resembles a mere mortal who is starting on 134, at all, is paramount.

--Matt

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From: "Joerg Schilling" <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Thursday, 19 August, 2010 2:00
To: <matt at greenviolet.net>; <garrett at damore.org>; <f.middleton at apogeect.com>
Cc: <discuss at lists.illumos.org>
Subject: Re: [illumos-Discuss] SPARC

> "Matt Lewandowsky" <matt at greenviolet.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm not advocating anything like what you're talking about. Right now,
>> Illumos needs to be a useful set of code. The quickest way to get there 
>> is
>> to ensure that you have at least one fully-functional platform, then 
>> bring
>> the other(s) back to parity.
>
> Maybe you missunderstand me: I vote to avoid adding incorrect code as 
> early as
> possible. Sparec related problems could be avoided _iff_ someone runs
> compilations on Sparc. If such a compilation unveils problems, they should 
> be
> fixed ad soon as possible.
>
> Jörg
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