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mghackerladyyesterday at 10:22 PM1 replyview on HN

So wait, sparc solaris is the only production unix with hardware memory tagging but also linux has it? Are we talking strict SUS compliant systems (current or former because for some reason solaris is no longer listed as such despite ostensibly still being compliant unless the SRUs have seriously FUBARed some things) or unices in general? because I'd argue anyone running SUS compliant systems out of anything other than their choice happening to be compliant is arguably even more niche than running AIX or Solaris for anything else


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pjmlptoday at 3:56 AM

We are talking about SPARC ADI, still sold by Oracle and Fujistsu.

https://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc

Linux while not being UNIX, does support it as Oracle upstreamed SPARC ADI support during the brief time they had Oracle Linux support for SPARC.

https://docs.kernel.org/arch/sparc/adi.html

Now why someone would use unsupported OpenBSD on SPARC for the kinds of clients that pay for this stuff, beats me.

Assuming it does even support SPARC ADI.