Bob, Yes, there are a few developers interesting porting to this platform and other ARM products in which the base is there. David Clack @ Oracle seem still in the mix of things. I'd start through the old discussions and with David.
See: https://blogs.oracle.com/oslab/entry/solaris_11_on_arm_server#comment-1318412416700 The older code is still available online. ~K ________________________________ From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calxeda ECX-1000 (OpenIndiana ARM platform port) On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, ken mays wrote: > > > Hello, > > Calxeda EnergyCore ECX-1000 Series (Quad-core 1.4Ghz ARM Cortex A9) I see that you hijacked an existing discussion thread so threaded mail readers will show this thread as part of an earlier unrelated thread. Is anyone still actively working on the ARM port? Support for ARM (and particularly ARM64) would be very useful and open Illumos-based systems to new opportunities. This is the sort of work that developers should be paid to do. The various ARM-based server platforms I see emerging are very I/O-centric and focus more on getting data to/from the CPU than on CPU compute power. This is good fit for problems that VMs are trying to solve today. VMs try to solve the problem that CPUs have become very powerful (and power-hungry) so they provide a way to offer more "servers" per system, yet they do not help with the I/O issues. ARM-based servers typically provide a built-in switching matrix so that there is an optimized path to each mini-server in the larger server chassis. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
