Hi, RPM offers the targets sparcv9v/sparc64v (which is, simply put, cflags += -mtune=niagara). On a sun4v, it would make sense to prefer v9v/64v packages over v9/64 packages — and the reverse on sun4u — when a package manager considers potential candidate files for installation of a wanted package. But how would the package manager (apt-get/yum/zypper) decide whether they are on sun4v or not, without resorting to testing for SPARC-specific hardware itself? That is to say, I think the kernel should hand out this information in some way perhaps. Solaris's uname(2) syscall would directly return sun4[cduv], while Linux just outputs sparc/sparc64. thanks, Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
