by aryzh » Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:32:39
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/specs.html#SOFTWARE
says Solaris 9 will run on SunFire Opteron in 32-bit mode.
I thougt, 64-bit port for x86 has been complete ages ago
(at about the same time as a full 64-bit SPARC? 2.6?)
Are there any official commitments for 64-bit Solaris x86,
or speculations only are possible so far?
Thanks,
Andrei
by Goran Larss » Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:54:30
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by Joerg Schilli » Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:19:51
>http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/specs.html#SOFTWARE
>says Solaris 9 will run on SunFire Opteron in 32-bit mode.
>I thougt, 64-bit port for x86 has been complete ages ago
>(at about the same time as a full 64-bit SPARC? 2.6?)
A 64 bit port for AMD-64 is expected in the middle of the year
but most likely only for Solaris 10 and above.
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by Joerg Schilli » Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:21:01
>> I thougt, 64-bit port for x86 has been complete ages ago
>> (at about the same time as a full 64-bit SPARC? 2.6?)
>How could that have been possible? The number of available
>64-bit x86 implementations at that time was ZERO.
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by Casper H.S. Di » Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:57:12
Of course, a lot of the OS work needed to support a 64 bit OS
was completed with the 64 bit SPARC port: all common device drivers
and code are 64 bit clean, though there are probably wrong #ifdefs
which need to be hunted down.
Perhaps you are confused with the "Itanium" port which was completed
a long time ago but then abandoned (it was never integrated in
the main Solaris source tree)
I believe there are no firm commitments.Quote:>Are there any official commitments for 64-bit Solaris x86,
>or speculations only are possible so far?
Casper
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by John D Groenve » Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:01:05
John
by John D Groenve » Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:12:26
Nothing is absolute until it delivers, but given that Sales and MarketingQuote:>>Are there any official commitments for 64-bit Solaris x86,
>>or speculations only are possible so far?
>I believe there are no firm commitments.
<URL:http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-11/sunflash.20031117.1.html>
| Sun plans to make 64-bit Solaris available on the AMD Opteron
| processor in the first half of 2004.
I expect those bits will be in Software Express for Solaris.
<URL:http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/cgi/xpertApp.cgi?session=10_solxpress&xpe...>
| Q: When can we expect Solaris Express 64-bit for Opteron?
|
| A: Good question. It will be this summer. Unfortunatley I can not
| promise you a fix date yet.
John
by Goran Larss » Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:04:11
How could Sun have ported Solaris 2.6 to a 64-bit x86 architecture
long before AMD and Intel even admitted thinking about extending
the x86 architecture to 64 bits?
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