>> - Will "bootable AI USB images" be created? For x86 it is fairly easy. >> What >> about for SPARC? > > It's not clear to me that there's a desire to have > bootable AI usb images, it doesn't appear to be 80% > of the use cases. > > In general, are SPARC usb images hard to create or we > just haven't created them to know? I just took a quick > look at usbgen and all it does is a straight copy of > the iso contents into a UFS file system. The only > implication this has is, SPARC usb images can be created > on a SPARC machine and not an x86 machine. >
USB boot support on SPARC is a pretty recent feature, and we haven't really looked at it. I do believe that we'll want to go to a ZFS file system for the USB images at some point, and that could eventually resolve the byte-order problem if we no longer need a VTOC for ZFS booting. Dave
