John Plocher wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key >> programs in /usr/bin into isaexec() links. While the isaexec() >> approach was not unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run >> frequently like prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well. > > > Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the > correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based > on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform.
I still prefer my boot time approach - root image is still portable, just like it's portable wrt processor features today. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
