It's been a few years since I was hopeful about this, but if someone revives this development, I'd exuberantly report results on my raspberry pi.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bob, > > I know ARM is a popular platform, I keep holding back from exploring > further as every time I look into it, it seems that one of the distro's is > close to having a somewhat functional port. > > Jerry > > > On 03/20/17 02:26 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Jerry Kemp wrote: >> >> I think that the OpenIndiana discussion is spot on, and I am always >>> excited to >>> see this discussion come back to a head. >>> >>> I believe I have reposted this previously, but in case you haven't seen >>> it, >>> here is one of the earliest post from Erik Trimble @ Sun announcing that >>> OpenSolaris/Indiana, then current at the time, had been successfully >>> ported to >>> ARM. >>> >>> Further study into this shows that there was also a special version of >>> ZFS, >>> termed CZFS, that was optimized to function in low resource environments. >>> >> >> Illumos/OpenIndiana should only concern itself with 64-bit ARM, which >> does not >> need to function in low resource environments. Supporting 64-bit ARM is >> a much >> easier task than supporting 32-bit ARM, which has a plethora of >> variations. >> >> Bob >> > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
