[illumos-Discuss] SPARC

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 10:23 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "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
> 


Yes, those would have to come back.

I don't think sbus support was removed, but I've not checked.  le is a
different matter.  Also, the onboard SCSI controller is not supported,
so that would have to be added back in.

	- Garrett