Re: [osol-help] Kernel and Application architecture

2008-04-03 Thread Ashok Prabhu
Thanks a bunch, Andrew :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Kernel and Application architecture

2008-04-03 Thread andrew
"sparcv9" means a 64-bit sparc processor which executes 64-bit binaries. "sun4v" is a "sub-architecture" used in the T1 and T2 processors (v stands for virtualisation). The other sub-architecture currently being sold by sun is sun4u (u stands for ultra). A binary compiled for sparcv9 should wor

[osol-help] Kernel and Application architecture

2008-04-02 Thread Ashok Prabhu
What is the difference between the kernel architecture and application architecture which can be displayed with the help of the following commands? bash-3.00$ isainfo sparcv9 sparc bash-3.00$ arch -k sun4v ~Ashok This message posted from opensolaris.org __