OpenSolaris

Heads Up: SPARCLE aka Sun Ultra 3 support

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:46:35 -0700
From: "Garrett D'Amore" <Garrett.Damore at sun dot com>
To: on-all at sun dot com
Subject: Heads Up: SPARCLE aka Sun Ultra 3 support

Heads Up: SPARCLE aka Sun Ultra 3 support got committed today

(Thought I'd join on the HEADS UP bandwagon...)

Seriously, if you have one of these systems running Nevada, you cannot
use BFU to pick up my changes on it, until you first do a full install
with sources that include my putback.  (You could full install earlier
versions of Nevada, but they were not BFU compatible.)

The problem is due to a bug (bad assumption) in BFU, where if uname -m
== uname -i, it does not install any platform specific modules (apart
from uname -m.)  Older Nevada releases lacked the bits for uname -i to
be recognized properly, so uname -i always was just "sun4u" instead of
"TAD,SPARCLE".

Anyway, just to be safe, I recommend you do a fresh install from today's
bits.

Note that this problem is going to be true of other Tadpole platforms as
well, but I've not put those support bits back yet.