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List:       ilug
Subject:    Re: [ILUG] Open Solaris boot prom question
From:       paul () clubi ! ie
Date:       2009-02-25 10:45:34
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Braun Brelin wrote:

> Back in the days when I used Sun with SPARC processors, they had a 
> really nice open boot prom (Written in Forth, if I recall). Is this 
> also supported for Open Solaris running on Intel x86 processors? 
> Or is this a SPARC only feature?

It's a hardware feature. Intel x86 usually does not use OF (I think 
the XO laptop might though).

Solaris on x86 uses the normal x86 BIOS services. I /think/ it 
supports EFI too.

regasrds,
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