Ubuntu Dapper will have a SPARC Niagara version [LWN.net]

Sun and Canonical have announced that the upcoming Ubuntu release ("6.06 LTS" or "Dapper Drake") will include a version for Sun's SPARC "Niagara" architecture. "Through the OpenSPARC initiative (http://www.opensparc.net), Canonical engineering and the Ubuntu community were given open access to the design of the UltraSPARC T1 processor and quickly completed the porting process. The release of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution on UltraSPARC T1 processor-based systems merely ten weeks after the open source release of the chip design point validates the open hardware approach pioneered by SUN with the UltraSPARC T1 processor, and demonstrates the Ubuntu community's excitement at the benefits of Sun's SPARC processor-based CMT architecture for next-generation Web, communications and transactional services." Note that it was David Miller who "quickly completed" much of the kernel porting process.

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Ubuntu Dapper will have a SPARC Niagara version

Posted May 31, 2006 17:11 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Thanks for the clarification at the end.. I don't think David Miller works for Ubuntu either :).

Ubuntu Dapper will have a SPARC Niagara version

Posted Jun 1, 2006 6:17 UTC (Thu) by rfrancoise (subscriber, #15508) [Link]

The resulting '2.6.15 + Ubuntu mods + Niagara sparc64 patches' tree is available from there:

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/ubuntu-ni...