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The Solaris port was literally for a single point release of Solaris (2.5.1), and was dropped the next update. Extremely bizarre, but it is widely mentioned wit
by spijdar 4y ago
The Solaris port was literally for a single point release of Solaris (2.5.1), and was dropped the next update. Extremely bizarre, but it is widely mentioned within that single version, in the installer and everything. Apparently the code was later referenced to help port OpenSolaris 10 to PowerPC, the result of which is here: https://github.com/andreiw/polaris https://github.com/andreiw/polaris
Very mysterious, and since it's little endian, it only runs on these PReP/CHRP machines with LE-supporting firmware, like Windows used. I assume it'd work, if Solaris has the device drivers...
- atdrummond 4y agoCorrect - appreciate you adding the context about the PReP/CHRP reference systems. You can’t take the Solaris install and just run it on any PowerPC build, even if it is a 60x family machine.