James C. McPherson wrote: > Jan Friedel wrote: >> Below described approach seems to be related only to x86/GRUB >> systems. Do we have some sort of support for SPARC machines >> (already there / planned)? > > Hi Jan, > you're right, the utilities as they currently exist are specificly > for x86/x64 systems. I had not worried about SPARC support since > I've not yet come across any request from an IHV/ISV to provide this > sort of facility. > > I am quite happy to work on it for a followup phase, especially > since we've now got GRUB for SPARC.
Well I have, and not from an external customer, from our own hardware groups. We have had to issue various HW versions of Solaris for Sparc hardware that we needed to release prior to the next official release. So we end up creating an interim hardware release, just to add a driver or two. If SPARC systems had this capability we would not need to involve Release Engineering in creating a special one-off release to support new hardware releases. Mike _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
