Tycho Nightingale wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Jean McCormack wrote:
>
>> Please review the following fixes
>>
>>
>> CR:
>> 5887 DC needs to install boot blocks to sparc bootroot
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5887
>>
>> 5888  /platform/[sun4u|sun4v]/wanboot is needed in AI image
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5888
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jeanm/slim_5888_5887/
>
> The path to the bootblock with an embedded 'sun4u' may break on 
> 'sun4v' systems.  It's probably best to use:
>
>  /usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
There's actually 2 reasons not to. 1) You could be building on a 
different architecture than what you will run on. Thus uname -m might return
a different platform anyway. 2) I was told (2nd hand) that Jan 
recommended using sun4u. Since he's the boot guy I figured this was correct.

Jean


>
> Tycho


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