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Old 09-21-2011
prtdiag output for Solaris on Fujitsu hardware shows vendor as Sun Microsystems

Hello,

I was under the impression that the Header of the prtdiag output shows the hardware vendor information in the section between System Configuration and sun4u/sun4us. But on some Solaris machines which are running on Fujitsu hardware, the vendor is shown as Sun Microsystems in this command's output header. Excerpt of the command output follows -

Code:
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4us Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER250 1x SPARC64 V
System clock frequency: 220 MHz
Memory size: 1024 Megabytes

Is there any single reliable way to get the correct hardware vendor information on Solaris machines? Can you please also post some examples if possible?

Appreciate any help on this.

Thanks.

Last edited by pludi; 09-21-2011 at 10:20 AM..
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Old 09-21-2011
In what ways does it disturb you? why would you like to change that?
I don't think you can.
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Old 09-21-2011
SPARC is Oracle trademark
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Old 09-21-2011
we've had a case where it says the hard drive is Sun, but its Fujitsu actually.
still the model number is correct, so it doesn't really matter.
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Old 09-21-2011
I want to get information of the hardware vendor that the particular Solaris system is running on. So if it's shown wrong in the output of prtdiag (which I use currently), then it isn't much helpful.

I was wondering if there's another way to get this information then. Some other command or some file that can be read?
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Old 09-21-2011
Oracle and Fujitsu are working together to develop the SPARC64 architecture.

If I take an _old_ example: T2000. You can have a "Sun branded" on and a "Fujitsu branded" one to but both have the same hardware.

https://support.oracle.com/handbook_...reT2000_R.html

UNIX Server SPARC Enterprise T2000 : Fujitsu Global

Who built it first? I can't tell you.

Same thing for M series etc ...

It's also a fact that both vendors offer hardware support for the whole plateforms.

Check the vendor-ids from "prtpicl -v" you'll be surprised.

And no, SPARC is not an Oracle trademark. It was developped by Sun in the late 80s. It's Sparc International's trademark.

IMHO, Fujitsu will buy Oracle's hardware developement divsion / technical support people.
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Old 09-22-2011
That doesn't make a difference. Both companies Fujitsu and Sun/Oracle are aware. Support for a PP will usually go to Fujitsu, but not always. It's all a matter of who is contracted.
You can always take a look at what the Fujitsu "madmin" administration utility will show you. Probably the same.
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