[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Mon May 29 13:30:28 CDT 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) [mailto:robert.fuerst at sylvania.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 2:00 AM
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110
> 
> Ahhh - 
> /usr/bin/isainfo 
> sparcv9 sparc 
> /usr/bin/isainfo -b 
> 64 
> low and behold we are at 64 already on a few machines. 
> Now the question is does the software make use of it? 
> I'll have to run some speed tests and then force it to boot 
> at 32 and try that. 
> I see this /usr/bin/isainfo is only on the 2.7 software? I 
> see on 2.6 there is a 
> /usr/bin/isalist but no /usr/bin/isainfo. 

I seem to recall only Solaris 7 and higher having 64-bit kernels, but I'm
not sure on that one.  docs.sun.com seems to confirm that by returning
nothing in the Solaris 2.6 books on 64-bit.
	Greg





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