Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support
Hello Rainer,
> Support for Solaris 11.3 had already been obsoleted in GCC 13. However,
> since the only Solaris system in the cfarm was running 11.3, I've kept
> it in tree until now when both Solaris 11.4/SPARC and x86 systems have
> been added.
>
> This patch actually removes the Solaris 11.3 support.
I'm not sure I like this change since Solaris 11.3 is the last version of
Solaris supported by a large number of SPARC systems.
Oracle unfortunately raised the hardware baseline with Solaris 11.4 such
that every system older than the SPARC T4 is no longer supported by 11.4
while 11.3 still runs perfectly fine on these machines.
While Oracle does no longer provide feature updates to Solaris 11.3, there
is still LTSS security support so that users still receive security updates
so that their systems are continued to be protected against vulnerabilities.
I think Solaris 11.3 support should be kept since the resulting code removal
is not that large that it would justify dropping support for such a large
userbase.
Removing Solaris 11.3 support might make sense in the future when SPARC
support in Illumos has matured enough that people can switch over their
machines.
Thanks,
Adrian
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