Dick Davies wrote:
On 13/04/07, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sparc support is in the works. We're waiting on some other development
work going on right now in the area of sparc booting in general
(not specific to zfs booting, although the zfs boot loader
is part of that project). I can't give you a date right now,
but zfs boot will defintely be supported on sparc as well as x86.
Excellent work, thanks Lori.
Am I right in thinking the Sparc delay is down to openboot
(licensing issue)?
No, nothing to do with openboot or licensing. The new sparc
boot work changes some of the interfaces between the various
parts of the code involved in boot (the boot loader, the early
kernel code, some user-level code, etc.). We could have designed
zfs boot for sparc in accord with the old interfaces or the
new ones, and obviously, we chose to work with the new ones.
But that means we're dependent on them. So we can't boot from
sparc until that boot rework is delivered and made available.
Booting from zfs will not require any changes to OBP.
Existing proms will support it.
Lori
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