Bart Smaalders wrote: > 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.
Yes but you could have a smaller boot archive on systems not capable of running 64 bit (and also likely to have less memory) if a distinction on platform was allowed. -- Darren J Moffat
