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 > _______________________________________________ > observability-discuss mailing list > observability-discuss at opensolaris.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
