On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:34:11PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > It sounds like it is possible. However, I do not understand these things 
> > enough
> > to have a clear opinion. On SPARC, when I hit Stop-A I get back to "ok" 
> > prompt
> > and have an OBP working. However, not all of the facilities are available
> > at that point (AFAIR) until I reset-all it.
> 
> I believe that the OF on Sparc knows which commands would be dangerous to the 
> booted program (Solaris) and forbid them.

Ah, interesting, i don't think we do that, but it is i think not meaningful,
since we will only use the client interface, which has its own subset of
commands also, and not the full user interface, which i believei s what you
get when you stop-a.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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