> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:57:57AM -0700, Steve Logue wrote: > > 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 > > You could've guessed this has also come up before: > > 6230033 RFE: We need prtdiag for Solaris X86 to properly support it in > the field > > You may want to bring up some of these issues over at the Fault > Management discussion forums (CCing fm-discuss). 'prtdiag' itself > really isn't an observability tool in the strictest sense of the word. > It's been hanging out in the observability community for a while, but > now that the fault management community is up and running it may make > more sense to move discussion of these tools over there. > > That being said, the problem is significantly harder on x86 due to the > myriad of ways in which this information is stored and accessed. I > don't know of any specific plans in this area, but one of the FM folks > may be able to fill in details. > > - Eric
I am working on this at present -- in specific, I'm adding generic SMBIOS support to Solaris x86 for FMA and this will allow us to have an x86 prtdiag. This will be delivered in an S10 update once I'm done. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
