On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:04:38PM -0800, Cynthia McGuire wrote: > Tom Pothier wrote: > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >fm-discuss mailing list > >fm-discuss@opensolaris.org > > While I'm happy to see some convergence between x86 and SPARC, this > project moves in the wrong direction. If I understand correctly, you > are adopting the SPARC PRI for modeling the FMA topology on x86. This > has been discussed before and it was decided that a better approach for > all Sun platforms is to move toward adopting SMBIOS. SMBIOS (plus > whatever you glean from ACPI) then becomes the source of FRU and other > FMA topology information for things like libtopo and fmd(1M). Further, > Sun needs to draft a SMBIOS standard for platform vendors wishing to > participate in fault management and diagnosis for their platforms. > Included in the standard should be the required records for the Sun FMA. > If a vendor conforms (including Sun SPARC), diagnosis and FRU location > and replacement is then guaranteed. > > Cindi
+1 Industry-standard architecture approach please, not more of our own stuff in a place where it's not a differentiator. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. blogs.sun.com/mws/ _______________________________________________ fm-discuss mailing list fm-discuss@opensolaris.org
