Re: Sun hardware questions...
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:04:30 +0000
Zak Close <zak@abachus.co.uk> wrote:
> is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM?
It is just for Solaris. The card is driven by the Solaris kernel.
Userland tools communicate with the kernel driver for the PCi card
to load up it's RAM with a sub-OS to run, provide a disk image from
which to boot, things like that.
The PCi card provides "virtual" dummy devices for the x86 processor
environment running on that card. So there is a pseudo VGA device
et al., just the most simplest things necessary to boot up a real
system and run applications, nothing more.
Since this has become a non-Sparc/Linux discussion, please take it
to the appropriate forum.
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