[geeks] OpenSolaris on a mainframe

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Thu Mar 5 09:50:43 CST 2009


" From: "Jonathan J. M. Katz" <jon at jonworld.com>
" 
" On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>wrote:
" 
" > " From: Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com>
" > " MacPPC would be nice too.
" >
" > that would be polaris, if it's still alive.

found it: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ppc-dev/

" There are Solaris 2.5.1 CDs for PPC out in the wild. I remember having to
" fix/patch a Motorola PowerPC workstation many, many moons ago.
" 
" I doubt they'd run on G3/G4 hardware without some device driver love.

lots, if i understand correctly.  the folks above have access to the
2.5.1 and unreleased 2.6 ppc src, which they're leveraging although
much has changed since then.  openfirmware macs are one of their
objectives.

otoh the above pg hasn't been changed since july 2007.
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