diff --git a/README b/README
index 7c0ad23aa7..746fd3f3d7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2004-2007 The Regents of the University of California.
                         All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2007      Myricom, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2008      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2010      Oak Ridge National Labs.  All rights reserved.
@@ -224,11 +224,11 @@ Compiler Notes
   example, such configurations may require additional compiler /
   linker flags to make Open MPI build properly.
 
-- Open MPI does not support the Sparc v8 CPU target, which is the
-  default on Sun Solaris.  The v8plus (32 bit) or v9 (64 bit)
-  targets must be used to build Open MPI on Solaris.  This can be
-  done by including a flag in CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS, and FCFLAGS,
-  -xarch=v8plus for the Sun compilers, -mcpu=v9 for GCC.
+- Open MPI does not support the Sparc v8 CPU target.  However,
+  as of Solaris Studio 12.1,  and later compilers, one should not 
+  specify -xarch=v8plus or -xarch=v9.  The use of the options
+  -m32 and -m64 for producing 32 and 64 bit targets, respectively,
+  are now preferred by the Solaris Studio compilers.
 
 - At least some versions of the Intel 8.1 compiler seg fault while
   compiling certain Open MPI source code files.  As such, it is not