[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

[Michael Schiller]

On Jul 29, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> I understand why it would be stupid to officially support the U1.  What
> I don't get is why they would put a boot time check in, rather than 
> just
> deny that it is supported.

Well, Sun has done this same thing before. When they dropped VME 
support in Solaris 7 they did a boot time check for 6x0 series 
machines, and wouldn't boot on them, even tho it ran perfectly (without 
support for VME cards of course) on a 6x0 machine if you weren't using 
any VME cards. I would imagine that this is to make it difficult for a 
user to use it on a non-supported machine, so the user can't complain 
later that they just loaded it, and didn't know it was un-supported. I 
mean if you go out of your way to patch the kernel to not do the check, 
you're pretty sure what you're doing isn't supported. Gee, being able 
to think like a Suit is a scary thought!


-Mike
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