09-16-2012
Running Solaris SPARC on Intel Hardware????
Hello friends,
I hope everyone is fine and doing well. I want to learn Assembly language for SPARC architecture. Is there any emulator available for 64 bit SPARC on which one can install Oracle Solaris 11 SPARC version. And ofcourse on my intel laptop computer???
Thanks!
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fctl(7D) Devices fctl(7D)
NAME
fctl - Sun Fibre Channel transport library
DESCRIPTION
The fctl kernel module interfaces the Sun Fibre Channel upper layer protocol (ULP) mapping modules with Sun Fibre Channel adapter (FCA)
drivers. There are no user-configurable options for this module.
FILES
/kernel/misc/fctl
32-bit ELF kernel module (x86)
/kernel/misc/amd64/fctl
64-bit ELF kernel module (x86)
/kernel/misc/sparcv9/fctl
64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Unknown |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWfctl |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
fp(7D)
SunOS 5.10 20 Oct 2004 fctl(7D)