From wendlin1974 at googlemail.com  Thu Aug  6 20:46:14 2009
From: wendlin1974 at googlemail.com (Wendy Lin)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:46:14 +0200
Subject: [emerging-platforms-discuss] Hercules and Opensolaris (was: Re:
	Frustration about S390 platform)
Message-ID: <8f4704710908062046h6975f1a0u2802a47653ae2642@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/07/2009, Neale Ferguson <neale at sinenomine.net> wrote:
> Yes it is but it is not a SUN project.
>
>  I've updated the "Discussions" page of the System z section to describe
>  subscription to the mailing list you are after.
>
>  Finding hardware will be hard if you are not an existing user of System z.
>  We are trying to fix this by enhancing the "Hercules" emulator to understand
>  the hypervisor hooks exploited by OpenSolaris in the System z environment.
>  However, this will not be a quick process.

Do you have any date when initial Solaris capability is available in
Hercules? We need access to the emulator before we can start porting
and evaluating our applications on this new platform.

Wendy