Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support
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The problem with illumos on SPARC is; illumos is also removing SPARC support piece by piece, especially as it gets in the way of what they want to do with the OS on x86-64 machines (which is what everyone in that community doing the main development uses). This was due to the lack of having a build machine and the high cost of used hardware. https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0019/README.md https://www.illumos.org/issues/15563 Only one distro (Tribblix) still supports SPARC and I have no idea if it's using a fork or older version of the illumos kernel. It's also the only illumos distro that people with SPARC systems run because it's the only actively maintained distro for SPARC. Jake > On 05/09/2024 2:31 AM EDT John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Rainer, > > > Support for Solaris 11.3 had already been obsoleted in GCC 13. However, > > since the only Solaris system in the cfarm was running 11.3, I've kept > > it in tree until now when both Solaris 11.4/SPARC and x86 systems have > > been added. > > > > This patch actually removes the Solaris 11.3 support. > > I'm not sure I like this change since Solaris 11.3 is the last version of > Solaris supported by a large number of SPARC systems. > > Oracle unfortunately raised the hardware baseline with Solaris 11.4 such > that every system older than the SPARC T4 is no longer supported by 11.4 > while 11.3 still runs perfectly fine on these machines. > > While Oracle does no longer provide feature updates to Solaris 11.3, there > is still LTSS security support so that users still receive security updates > so that their systems are continued to be protected against vulnerabilities. > > I think Solaris 11.3 support should be kept since the resulting code removal > is not that large that it would justify dropping support for such a large > userbase. > > Removing Solaris 11.3 support might make sense in the future when SPARC > support in Illumos has matured enough that people can switch over their > machines. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913