[c-nsp] sup2T software & release notes have hit

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 17/07/2011 11:10, Gert Doering wrote:
> > From all I was able to gather, -modular / ION is dead.  Lack of
> > progress, lack of buy-in from other BUs, short-sighted management.
> 
> Yeah, -modular left me feeling rather cold.  Can't imagine why, but the
> ability to restart the line printer daemon on my 6500 just didn't do it for
> me :-)

But restarting the CPD was so useful!

> > XE is what the rumors told me the Sup2T would be based upon, but IOS 
> > versions like "12.2(50)SY" very much sound like IOS-trains.
> 
> Perhaps they are taking the 12.2(33) code train, compiling it up on the XE
> framework and calling it 12.2(50)SY?  This is pure speculation, but there
> has been so much 6500-centered development over the last number of years
> that it would be fatal not to base the code on the SX code train.  On the
> other hand, as XE provides a good quality development environment, why not
> use that as the host operating system?  Probably easier than yet another
> IOS port to another chipset.

Indeed (on both).  Now it would be nice to see a Sup2T boot log, to end 
the speculation and see what's in there...

gert

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