Re: Porting GNU C Library

[Patrick McGehearty <patrick dot mcgehearty at oracle dot com>]

Just FYI for those interested in Sun archeology,
SunOS 5.10 is the same as Solaris10.
Solaris is the marketing name for SunOS 5.
Not all internal strings got changed which is why many
still refer to that as SunOS.

The Sun-Fire-T200 is built around the UltraSPARC T1 processor
(code named Niagara), first shipped in 2005.
Relatively low power chip with modest single thread performance
but with up to 32 active threads, throughput was respectable
for its day (but not so much by today's standards).

- patrick


On 5/30/2019 2:53 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:02 PM ABELS, GARY <ga1534@att.com> wrote:
> > I am interested in porting to SunOS 5.10 Generic_150400-64 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200.
> Gary,
>
> Is there any reason you are interested in porting glibc to SunOS? Is
> there any reason you need to use SunOS?
>
> Depending on your requirements the simpler scenario is often to port
> the application that needs glibc to GNU/Linux and use an existing
> distribution like Debian, Ubunutu, Fedora, SUSE, etc.
>
> If you can tell us a little bit more about your requirements we can
> help give you more guidance.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.