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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 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    ;-)

Nothing is sacred here - if you look at Laca's desktop status, you'll see
the initial prototype won't even include Java, since JRE 1.6 and earlier
depend on Motif.

> 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" ?

Newboot for SPARC is in progress to avoid having to change the boot prom
for every platform - see for instance:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/525/

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