James Carlson wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: > >>> Are you intending that the sparc implementation of hostid be >>> unchanged? Why not use the same mechanism on all platforms? >>> >> I don't believe so. >> > > There's already a good hostid mechanism on SPARC. The problem is that > there's no equivalent mechanism on x86. > > I don't know how it would work on AMD systems, and I'm not sure a difference between AMD and intel is desirable, but, I would think that Solaris could enable the Intel CPU serial number feature, read and save the SN, and then disable the feature. Wouldn't this give a basically equivalent HW hostid mechanism that SPARC has?
Did AMD emulate the CPU SN feature? -Kyle
