<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">On Fri 14. Apr 2023 at 13:09, Mike Spooner via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Solaris 10 doesn't run on Ultra-1 workstations (the UltraSPARC-1 support was removed).</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Right, I was thinking of my U2 which has 300MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs. Thanks for the correction, Mike!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto">Also, IIRC, the U1/140 and U1/170 won't run Solaris 7, 8 or 9 *in 64-bit mode* due to a CPU bug (an extremely specific and esoteric 64-bit code sequence that will hard-hang the CPU). The Solaris check for this can be overridden though, to force 64-bit in spite of that. The (rare) U1/200 doesn't suffer the problem.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div>You are correct. The following is from the boot(1m) man page on Solaris 7:<br><br> On systems containing 200MHz or lower UltraSPARC-1 proces-<br> sors, it is possible for a user to run a 64-bit program<br> designed to exploit a problem that could cause a processor<br> to stall. Since 64-bit programs cannot run on the 32-bit<br> kernel, the 32-bit kernel is chosen as the default file on<br> these systems.<br><br> The code sequence that exploits the problem is very unusual<br> and is not likely to be generated by a compiler. Assembler<br> code had to be specifically written to demonstrate the prob-<br> lem. It is highly unlikely that a legitimate handwritten<br> assembler routine would use this code sequence.<br><br> Users willing to assume the risk that a user might acciden-<br> tally or deliberately run a program that was designed to<br> cause a processor to stall may choose to run the 64-bit ker-<br> nel by modifying the boot policy file. Edit<br> /platform/platform-name/boot.conf so that it contains an<br> uncommented line with the variable named<br> ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU set to the value true<br> as shown in the example that follows:<br><br> ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=true<br><br> For more information, see the Sun Hardware Platform Guide.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Malte<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"></blockquote></div></div>
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