On 2013-06-09 17:54, Fred Liu wrote: > Ever IT staff knows the answer of your equivalent question. > >> From: ken mays [mailto:[email protected]] >> The question can pertain to 'does Oracle Linux 6.4, Solaris 11.0, and >> Solaris 10u1-u10 work or install on the new SPARC T5 or SPARC64-X servers?'.
I think it was a trick question ;) Disregarding Linux, IMHO the point was that the code-bases of those older Solaris releases were same as or close to what was available to OpenSolaris when it was closed down and illumos appeared. So, if that level of kernel support happens to be adequate to run on a new server, lucky you (us). If not - then not. Likely, outside of Oracle and Fujitsu nobody has the expertise and right to do that integration properly. And until these boxes show up on eBay as "used" and old, they are likely to run Oracle Solaris bought from Oracle anyway. On a wider scale, I'd expect the "backward compatibility" of CPUs to allow execution of older OS versions, at least if the family is supported (sun4u/sun4v). There may be missing drivers for optimal use of these CPUs (i.e. crypto acceleration, intimate knowledge of threads' association to cores to optimize task queuing, etc.) but as long as the HBAs and NICs have appropriate drivers, at least some things might just work. Unless some CPU-specific errata is needed as well... I wonder if someone on the lists has access to a new box and can try Martin's LiveDVD there just for kicks ;) So far he has explicitly stated support for nearly all Sun server and desktop SPARC machines released before 2011 - which is about the time that kernels diverged. //Jim Klimov _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
