[illumos-Discuss] Bounty for porting OpenSolaris to ARM

[Chris Pickett]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Icy EyeG <icy.dearchild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I don't know if the developers of Illumos already know this, but there's a
> non profit organization called Power2People that is hosting a bounty for
> porting OpenSolaris to ARM, funded by Genesi.
> Details of the bounty here: http://www.power2people.org/bounty_044.html
>
> Power2People has hosted multiple bounties already for AROS, and thanks to
> it, AROS has improved tremendously. I hope it can do the same to
> OpenSolaris/Illumos.

I like to get a clear word from Nexenta *first* before anyone spends
time with such a project:
Will such an ARM port be developed and maintained as part of the
Illumos main hg repository or will it be delegated to a different
repository and never be integrated into the mainline?

Chris
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