[LinuxBIOS] Solaris

Greg Watson gwatson at lanl.gov
Wed Jun 15 20:43:04 CEST 2005


FYI, Sun approached me a couple of years ago at USENIX about  
LinuxBIOS/OpenBIOS. I tried following up with them, but to no avail.  
Maybe now is the time...

Greg

On Jun 15, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Funny you should be asking that question.
> At an event the company called "Boot Camp", they displayed laptops
> running Opterons, and Solaris, via the AMD64 code. I have here several
> copies of X86, and SPARC Solaris products. Currently there is default
> support for AMD64 based systems including their own boxes. This is all
> via Solaris 10.
> ----
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
> ---
> "The Force will be with you... Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linuxbios-bounces at openbios.org
>>
> [mailto:linuxbios-bounces at openbios.org]
>
>> On Behalf Of yhlu
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:48 PM
>> To: Justin Cormack
>> Cc: linuxbios at openbios.org
>> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Solaris
>>
>> I guess LinuxBIOS+OpenBIOS could help.
>>
>> which solaris version?
>>
>> Is there special solaris version support Opteron in 64bit?
>>
>> YH
>>
>> On 15 Jun 2005 18:12:36 +0000, Justin Cormack
>>
> <justin at street-vision.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone looked at what it would take to get Solaris booting
>>>
> under
>
>>> Linuxbios on Opteron?
>>>
>>> If not I might dig around (there is a modified grub - I think that
>>>
> does
>
>>> some of the init work; one suspects that because of its heritage
>>>
> it is
>
>>> quite BIOS-unencumbered).
>>>
>>> justin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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