Hello jteo, Jeremy Teo wrote:
>>Yes, Unified Solaris boot architecture. It makes sense to boot Solaris >>very same way across all of the supported architectures. haven't we been able to live without this for one decade? >>The GRUB approach also tends to simplify boot process a bit (well, >>mostly by moving the problematic part into some other realm ;) ) >> True, ok. >I agree as well. It is much easier to roll more functionality into >Grub, than onto OF on any platform. It would also save us much trouble >when ZFS boot functionality is complete, as we could then reuse work >done on x86/amd64, as opposed to trying to reinvent the SPARC >implementation. Oh, yes. Makes sense. Thanks for the enlightenment. So do you plan to discard OBP completely (as firmware) on future sparc boxes, or just the Solaris implementation of the gap between the firmware and a running kernel aka. the "boot process"? Don't disclose any SUNW-internal secrets, but do it ASAP ;) martin -- Best regards, Martin Bochnig
