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And here I was, thinking I was a damned fool for wanting to port Illumos to run on Power 9. Well, okay, I probably am still a damned fool for wanting such, but

And here I was, thinking I was a damned fool for wanting to port Illumos to run on Power 9. Well, okay, I probably am still a damned fool for wanting such, but knowing that the Solaris codebase has run on Power before gives me hope that it might actually be possible.

spijdar 6y ago
There were ultimately two ports of Solaris to PowerPC, this early one and a third party port of OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 to PowerPC. The latter, called Project Polaris, can be found in source form online https://github.com/andreiw/polaris https://github.com/andreiw/polaris Getting this running on ppc64(le) would be no small undertaking, but hey.