Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:58:08 +1000
From: "James C. McPherson" <James.McPherson at sun dot com>
To: on-all at sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: heads up: integration of ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431)
ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431) are now integrated into OpenSolaris.
If you've ever wanted to make a new driver or utility available to the user
at installation time, four tools are now available to make this a whole lot
easier:
itu(1)
mkcd(1)
patchmedia(1)
pkg2du(1)
all reside in usr/bin and significantly reduce the pain.
Running the tools with incorrect or no command line options produces
self-explanatory usage output.
If desired, you can use the tools (updatemedia in particular) to add
a driver update or ITU to an Solaris 10 Update installation image.
At present, these utilities are x86/x64 only, but adding support for
SPARC should be fairly easy to achieve.
Bugs or RFEs should be filed against
solaris/kernel/boot-x86
~--
James C. McPherson
~--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:52 +1000
From: "James C. McPherson"
To: on-all@sun.com, onnv-gate@onnv.eng.sun.com
Subject: Re: heads up: integration of ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431)
Hi all,
one small correction - the patchmedia command referred to below
should actually have been updatemedia.
James
James C. McPherson wrote:
>> ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431) are now integrated into
> OpenSolaris.
>> If you've ever wanted to make a new driver or utility available to the user
> at installation time, four tools are now available to make this a whole lot
> easier:
>> itu(1)
> mkcd(1)
> patchmedia(1)
> pkg2du(1)
>> all reside in usr/bin and significantly reduce the pain.
>> Running the tools with incorrect or no command line options produces
> self-explanatory usage output.
>> If desired, you can use the tools (updatemedia in particular) to add
> a driver update or ITU to an Solaris 10 Update installation image.
>> At present, these utilities are x86/x64 only, but adding support for
> SPARC should be fairly easy to achieve.
>>> Bugs or RFEs should be filed against
>> solaris/kernel/boot-x86
>>>>>
~--
James C. McPherson
~--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
