> That little bit of code is only needed for "ce", and perhaps "ge". It
> would be pretty trivial to make "ce" export DLPI style 1 nodes (and "ge"
> as well -- heck "ge" could be trivially converted to GLDv3 since it uses
> the same controller as eri, and that is already GLDv3.) All other
> network bootable devices already (I believe) export DLPI style 1 nodes.
I don't think this is true. The boot code relies on the nodes in
/devices. In particular, look at resolve_boot_path(), which hands back:
(void) snprintf(rootfs.bo_devname, BO_MAXOBJNAME,
"/devices/pseudo/cl...@0:%s", driver);
(void) snprintf(rootfs.bo_ifname, BO_MAXOBJNAME, "%s%d",
driver, instance);
rootfs.bo_ppa = instance;
Again, the /dev nodes have not been created yet.
> Agreed... I want to clean it up. But part of the process needs to
> include *notification* of the intent that these will be removed at some
> point in the future.... so I'm asking about making the interfaces
> Obsolete, not about actually removing them. Its *obviously* premature to
> remove anything.
If these aren't things we plan to remove for Solaris 11, then we have
plenty of time to work out a transition plan.
--
meem
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