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

[Brandorr]

On 10/1/07, Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote:
> 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.

Basically making it work without making any significant changes to
OBP. As I understand this is dependent on the Sparc GRUB project
(unified boot process).

-Brian
>
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