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Ubuntu Dapper will have a SPARC Niagara version
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...
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