[laptop-discuss] Re: Building ath for sparc without a complete ON build

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>Yes.  SPARCv8aplus is a 32-bit environment on a sparcv9 processor.  The
>Solaris kernel always runs sparcv9 (i.e. 64-bit), unless you're running
>a version of Solaris older than Solaris 9.

And it's wrong to call an Ultra60 "sparcv8aplus" as it's actually a
SPARC v9 (+VIS) CPU and Solaris 10 and later kernels only run in 64
bit mode on supported SPARC hardware.  (Which consequently is V9)

Casper