> - any interface changes in the lower level kernel > l will > need to be done on all the copies of the vm > vm system; that's > work times 3 if we supported sun4c, sun4m, sun4d > > - older CPUs lack the necessary instructions for > r certain > atomic operations. That requires us to have > ave multiple > library copies because we need to make use of > of those instructions > > - for S10, we don't want to support a 32 bit kernel > l forever; > again a great engineering $$ savings > > - dtrace has no chance of working on sun4m or > r earlier
OK, while I understand the above three, the last one is the really interesting gem: why wouldn't DTrace work? I thought DTrace relies on providers exported by the binary himself? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
