AMD 64 support
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 21:14:47 UTC 2003
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Peter Jones wrote:
>> Red Hat has never to my knowledge produced the operating system for
>> non-x86 processors except under contract with a vendor who produces
>> systems for the given processor.
>
>This is just plain wrong; we did Alpha and SPARC both for quite some time
>without being paid to do them.
It's not wrong in the specific wording that I used, in particular
the "to my knowledge" part.
I started at Red Hat just after Red Hat Linux 7.0 was released,
and every architecture port we've done the entire time that I've
been here was contractual, unless I have missed something. Prior
to that I have no knowledge of what ports were funded or not,
however Sparc was dropped due to lack of commercial interest if
that means anything, and so was Alpha after 7.2.
I put "to my knowledge" intentionally, so as not to exclude the
possibility that there was something done outside of my
knowledge prior to my assimilation into The Hat. ;o)
>> While x86 is the mainstay, non-x86 processors have traditionally just
>> not been a viable profitable platform to develop the OS for without
>> partnerships and contracts to do the work in order to make it
>> worthwhile.
>
>That's probably pretty accurate.
Until now... Lets change all that. ;o)
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Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
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