[2778] in Release_7.7_team
Re: release notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Jun 7 18:31:25 2001
Message-Id: <200106072231.SAA06899@frank-n-furter.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, Aurora Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:05:41 -0000."
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:31:09 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> 1. Solaris OS upgrade is ALSO an upgrade to running in 64 bit mode by
>> default. This has been made as invisible to end users as possible.
>> Program developers may need to know this. End users may need a brief
>> mention of what can happen if they trip over a rough edge?
Developers should be aware of this, although the caveats are only
likely to affect people who are writing device drivers or software that
needs to read kernel structures. End users only really need to know
that if something doesn't work, they should submit a bug report.
>> 2. It is possible that Linux users are sufficiently clueful that
>> they'll want to know we went to the 2.4 kernel.
I believe "Redhat 7.1" implies using a 2.4 kernel, but mentioning it
probably wouldn't hurt.
>> If we're mentioning OpenAFS then mentioning 64 bits and the 2.4
>> kernel seem at about the same clueness level to me.
Agreed.
>> 3. We might want to point Developers at whatever Sun documentation is
>> relevant lore on 64 bit programming.
The Solaris 64 bit developer's guide may be a reasonable thing to
make reference to:
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.45.13/SOL64TRANS/
Garry
