[indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

[Richard Lowe]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> > And if Indiana ever chooses to target sparc, the sparc disassembler 
>> will
>> > need some love.
>>
>> If Indiana ever chooses to target SPARC desktops, the SPARC graphics 
>> situation
>> will be even more heartburn inducing.   (The Xorg graphics drivers 
>> from the
>> Martux distribution may be able to help there.)
> 
> You know, it had never even occurred to me that Indiana wouldn't
> target both sparc and x86.
> 
> I've not seen anything that would indicate that Indiana was x86 only.
> 
> Clarification from the team?
> 

My feeling is that anything aiming for status as a 'reference' of any kind 
has to be available on all of the platforms we support.  While it may be 
practical to do them one at a time (I suspect it isn't, but I've been wrong 
before), I can't see a way they could not support sparc but still hold to 
their other goals.

I agree, though, that their description of themselves should make this clear.

-- Rich