Is there any chance of prtdiag being enabled to work
albeit partially on the x86 platform?  I've got a
motherboard with scads of temps, and RPMs, etc in BIOS
that I'd love to be able to examine from Solaris.  I
promise not to create support chaff ;)

-STEVEl

--- Eric Schrock <eric.schrock at sun.com> wrote:

> Greg -
> 
> This has come up before as:
> 
> 5034084 prtdiag is much less informative in s10 than
> it was in s9
> 
> This issue was raised during our beta program, and
> has since been raised
> again in several OpenSolaris mailing lists.  The
> original reason this
> was done was the high rate of support calls to Sun
> regarding customer
> perceived problems that weren't really there. 
> Customers would monitor
> temperatures and make assumptions about the health
> of hardware that
> weren't necessarily true.
> 
> I agree with the original intent - changing the
> default output to hide
> this stuff is fine.  But I have lobbied
> (unsuccessfully) to at least put
> back an "expert" mode that allows this information
> to be displayed for
> the suitably savvy admins.  I will add your concerns
> to the growing list
> of complaints, but no one is currently working on
> this.
> 
> - Eric
> 
> --
> Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development      
> http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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