The "Sirius" project is the port of OpenSolaris to the IBM System z platform, making it the first external project to successfully extend the reach of the operating system outside Intel or SPARC. This presentation describes the design decisions made when planning and implementing the port of OpenSolaris to IBM's z/Architecture. It also describes and lists the changes made to the tools used to build the OpenSolaris code, as well as to the code itself. Apart from having great "hacker" appeal and a high "cool" factor there are interesting and perhaps compelling arguments for pursuing the goal of porting OpenSolaris to z/Architecture. These arguments will be examined in the presentation. An brief introduction to IBM's z/Architecture will be provided so that attendees can appreciate how this port of OpenSolaris has exploited the features of the platform.
Neale Ferguson is the Chief Scientist and Principal Engineer at Sine Nomine Associates. He has had almost 30 years experience working with IBM mainframe and was involved in the porting of Linux to System z (independent of IBM). He did most of the design and kernel work for the port of OpenSolaris to System z. Originally from Sydney Australia he now lives in Leesburg Virginia.
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