[illumos-Discuss] Bounty for porting OpenSolaris to ARM

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 14:58 +0200, Chris Pickett wrote:
> 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:

First off, Nexenta doesn't have the final word here.  If the
developer-council and advocates agree that this (or any other project)
either should or should not be integrated, then that decision will be
binding.  (The fact that significant leadership of the project are
Nexenta employees is a red herring.)

> 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?

If the porters can convince us that:

	a) They are ready from a quality standpoint, and
	b) They have long term commitment to supporting the code, and
	c) That we can get some some sample hardware to build and test on, and
	d) There are no other reasons (licensing, or otherwise) why they should
not be integrated,

then I see no reason why ARM support could not be integrated into
illumos.

	- Garrett