[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

[Oliver Jones]

I have something else to add, too.

I also think that focusing on the Xeon platform alone would be an error. Good support needs to be there for the Bearlake and Bearlake-X when they arrive, as well as the Santa Rosa laptop chipset.

The vast majority of people who are interested in running Solaris x86 on non-Sun hardware will *NOT* be doing it on a Xeon platform. I think it is important that Xeons are supported, for the corporates and high-end users - but it is worth remembering that if we need to shell out thousands of pounds/dollars/euros just to have a system capable of running Solaris x86, we may as well defect to Linux or BSD now.
 
 
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