Darren J Moffat wrote: > Jerry Gilliam wrote: >> Proposal >> ---------- >> Support a command-line argument to bootadm(1M) to specify the client's >> platform implementation for boot administration of a client. >> >> Analogous updates to the create_ramdisk and extract_boot_filelist >> utilities, invoked by bootadm, are needed. >> >> The diskless administration tools such as smosservice(1M) are >> aware of a client's platform and can invoke bootadm appropriately. >> The miniroot construction process uses the root_archive tool >> and would not be impacted by this change. > > What are the valid values for platform ? > > In particular for x86 does this allow making a distinction between > "i386" and "amd64" ? >
There is no difference between the two; Solaris installs both 32bit and 64 bit binaries when installing Solaris x86. - 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."
