huh? OBP on E25K's was always present for the adding and removal of CPU, memory, and I/O devices...
Not sure I see how that makes a case for removing it. ;) Nathan. Alexandre Chartre wrote: > > That's mostly because the OBP relies on a static configuration > initialized when the system (or a domain) is started, and it does > not support things like dynamic reconfiguration (e.g. add/removing > cpu while the system is running). If the OBP was kept then it > could become out of sync compared with the actual configuration. > > alex. > > On 02/11/10 04:08, jf simon wrote: >> Alex, >> >>>>> On sun4v platforms, when Solaris boots, the OBP is removed from >>>>> the memory and you can not used it anymore when Solaris is running. >>>>> This is done in order to properly support virtualization (with >>>>> Logical Domains). >> >> BTW, why would OBP need to be removed for virtualization purposes? >> -jfs >> > _______________________________________________ > driver-discuss mailing list > driver-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
