[indiana-discuss] Project Indiana is an initiative to create an OpenSolaris binary distro ...

[Martin Bochnig]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> A desire for a SPARC-version of Indiana doesn't exist, does it?
>> If so, why isn't anybody discussing, not to mention working, on it?
>
> Absolutely, there will be a SPARC version of Indiana.  

This relieves me.
Really.

> As Alan
> mentioned, this won't be available in the prototype or proof of concept
> that is planned for later this month but it's certainly our intent to
> have that available for SPARC by the spring time-frame.

Okay, so to 1st setup sample/prototype on x86, then clone and adjust it 
in order to make it work on SPARC.
Makes sense, one possible way of doing it, although I guess during Scott 
McNealy's time it would have been done exactly the other way around    ;-)
>
> In order to get there, there are a number of issues that need to be
> resolved including the work that you, Alan and Moniak are doing in the
> X11 space.  We also need to get ZFS root support on SPARC too.
>
> dsc
>

I'm not very up-to-date in terms of ZFS.
What is missing? Is somebody  already working on the IEEE1275 Forth code 
to implement something like "zfsboot" ?
As Ian uses to underline, ZFS is one of OpenSolaris' key strengths. It 
should be bootable on all platforms, as there should exist an option 
during (whatever) install method permitting to avoid ufs completely.

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Regards,
%martin