Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support
The problem with illumos on SPARC is; illumos is also removing SPARC support piece by piece, especially as it gets in the way of what they want to do with the OS on x86-64 machines (which is what everyone in that community doing the main development uses). This was due to the lack of having a build machine and the high cost of used hardware.
https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0019/README.md
https://www.illumos.org/issues/15563
Only one distro (Tribblix) still supports SPARC and I have no idea if it's using a fork or older version of the illumos kernel. It's also the only illumos distro that people with SPARC systems run because it's the only actively maintained distro for SPARC.
Jake
> On 05/09/2024 2:31 AM EDT John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>
> 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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