Niagara Support and Ubuntu

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> 
> Hi Colm,
> 
>> Sun are keen that the Niagara platform be supported by the next Ubuntu
> 
> My hunch is that if Sun send some of the following towards Canonical then
> Ubuntu will definitely be *even more* supported by Ubuntu than it currently
> is:
> 
>   a) Machines (and that includes prototypes, if Sun want new hardware to be
>      working 100% on zero-day).

I received one as part of their open development program.

>   b) Technical documents, giving details on how to drive the chipset and any
>      quirks that have had to be worked around in other operating systems.

http://opensparc.info/cgi-bin/goto.php?w=http://opensparc.sunsource.net/specs/UST1-UASuppl-current-draft-HP-EXT.pdf

They are open and available already.

>   c) Money, to pay for dedicated developer time.

i really can't comment on this :)

> Currently Ubuntu's sparc64 is a best-effort, based on the amount of
> free-time (yes, his own free time) that Fabbione has.  That best-effort is
> currently very good (as you've clearly found out and blogged about!), but it
> could be *even* better.

Agreed but i am not the only working on it. A lot of people in the team did help
me including a bunch of our users like Colm that made install on raid possible :)

Fabio

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