On 06/19/2012 04:07 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Sa?o Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I love SPARC and I've got a bunch of unused SPARC kit lying around too, >> but unfortunately, for real-world performance, support, choice, ease of >> development and pure economic sense, SPARC is a dead platform. Intel ate >> SPARC's lunch, big time. With vendors like SuperMicro producing cheap, >> fast and well supported hardware on which we can run Illumos, going to a >> proprietary, expensive and single vendor-sourced solution (no matter how >> sexy) simply isn't an option for most deployments. A shame, really, >> considering the rich history of SPARC as a platform... > > In a few weeks, the new SVr4 Pkg based Schillix will be ready and then > building > a Sparc based system should be feasable. > > We need help from someone who has a sparc and who knows how to create a > bootable system for recent OpenSolaris.
I've got a few Netra 240s and some soon-to-be-retired T2000s lying around, but I don't have much expertise on how to build that bootable system. Maybe I can arrange for some of the machines to be sent to the appropriate people here in Europe (can't pay for shipping though). -- Saso _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
