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

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