[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Scott Howard wrote:

> Yup. I went looking once to find out why, and there was a semi-sane
> reason for it, although I've completely forgotten what it was!

Did it have something to do with Cray using them in the J90s (and
possibly SV1s) as system controllers?

> Nope. S10 will no longer boot on an UltraSPARC-I at all. There's a check
> in the boot code which stops it. See my previous msg for more details.

That doesn't seem like it'd be hard at all to defeat.  Probably one
could just replace a comparison with a nop in the kernel.  But then
you'd have to redo it everytime you got a new patchset and it'd only be
a matter of time before software targeted at S10 would assume US-II.

Oh well, I need an excuse to upgrade my Ultra 1Es to Netra T1s, anyway.  :)

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