Posted on 01/30/2006 8:11:48 AM PST by N3WBI3
Sun is keener than ever to port Linux to its new multicore T1 chip, even if it's not expected to happen for six to nine months.
The company has made T1 servers available to Linux developers and is working with unnamed Linux distributors to develop the port.
And while a port may be completed this year, it will be a while before Linux on T1 appears in production environments; application certification and support will be needed as well.
Mike Splain, chief technologist for Suns Scalable Systems Group, believes Linux running on the companys eight-core chip will open up new options for users who want to run Linux applications in a scaled-up system. "Having multiple operating systems [for the T1] broadens its appeal, he said.
Linux can already run on UltraSparc chips, but there has been little interest in doing so to date. Splain attributed that to technical limitations Linux developers face when building ports. By open-sourcing the engineering specifications, Sun is ensuring that Linux developers now have the exact same documents that we would use internally, he said.
Moreover, working with the T1 will be easier because it includes a hypervisor, which is similar to a BIOS on an x86 chip, and developers will be able to write to the hypervisors application programming interfaces. The hypervisor will also eventually include virtualisation capabilities, he said. The specifications are available online at www.opensparc.net.
Suns decision last month to open-source its UltraSparc chip specifications follows the release early last year of the Solaris source code as open-source. In both cases, for the UltraSparc chip as well as the Solaris operating system, Sun is encouraging developers to find new ways to use its systems.
Suns open-source push is already yielding results. For instance, earlier this month, Blastwave, a Canadian Solaris open-source development firm said it had ported Solaris to IBMs Power chip.
Karl Freund, vice president of IBM Systems Group, called that move another signal that [the Power chip] has cast a long shadow over Suns confusing array of processors. It would seem that even Sun and their remaining customers acknowledge the value of our Power innovations.
Karen Anaya, chairwoman and CEO of Sparc International, hailed the plan to open-source the T1. She believes the specification release will boost Linuxs capability to run on UltraSparc and said it will draw third-party support. Anaya also said her group expects a T1 port to Linux. Were excited about it, she said.
You have proven yourself to be unable to discuss neither the technical merits of Linux nor do you seem to be able to read and understand the GPL. You keep repeating the same unfounded and disproven accusations, even after many generous posters have gone to much trouble to enlighten and educate you.
After a while it becomes obvious that you have an anti-opensource agenda that lends itself to no understanding or compromise and therefore your comments are a pointless waste of bandwidth, not worthy of being responded to.
In other words...
Begone, foul troll.
I was reading an interesting thread until you showed up and tossed out the flame bait. What is wrong with you?
He asked a question and I answered it. The zealots bombard us with threads like these that show just how pushy they are with their Linux. Some of us have been around long enough to know that it's nothing more than a foreign clone of our already existing and superior products.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1565651/posts
Why should we replace them with it? Because liberals and socialists and communist governments like it so much?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x665385
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/1736/531
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1617712,00.asp?kc=EWNKT0209KTX1K0100440
http://ianmurdock.com/?p=54
http://weblog.flora.org/article.php3?story_id=552
http://zgp.org/linux-elitists/p05210612bb7d87639a93@[192.168.1.101].html
http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/article.php?story=20050624042207848&mode=print
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/42700029
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5279
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7239
http://asia.cnet.com/news/software/printfriendly.htm?AT=39146335-39001094t-39000001c
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/10/1457205.shtml
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/05/19/1213245.shtml?tid=106&tid=219
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/30/1435248.shtml
http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/3822
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-30-011-26-NW-LL-PB
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/01/1148227.shtml?tid=103&tid=99
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print?TYPE=story&AT=2133230-39020381t-10000002c
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,104039,src,ov,00.asp
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-10-20-open-source-mass_x.htm
http://www.newsforge.com/business/04/02/27/2329240.shtml
Begone, foul troll.
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