Re: What hardware does Solaris 10 SPARC support?

From: Dave (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:57:58 +0000

Frank-Christian Kruegel wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2005 05:07:00 GMT, Dennis Grevenstein
> <dennis.grevenstein@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>In comp.sys.sun.hardware Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to find out if my somewhat old hardware will be OK on Solaris
>>> 10. My biggest concern is the Sun PCI II Pro card (733 MHz Celeron).
>>>Why I worry I do not know, as the thing is so damm slow, but it saves
>>>the hassle of starting a PC some times.
>>
>>I have a Blade 1000 with that SunPCI II card up and running.
>
>
> ... with Solaris 10? What software? I thought Solaris 9 was the last
> supported one?
>
> Does the SunPCI-3 software also work with SunPCI-2 boards?
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Frank-Christian Krügel

My understanding was the SunPCI II pro was not supported, but I can't
find a document which gives a list of supported hardware for Solaris 10
on SPARC. I find it hard to belive Sun have not produced one, but I
can't find it.

Of course 'supported' and 'it works' are often two very different
things. I'm aware the Creator3D framebuffer is not supported in the
Ultra 80 (I only realised this a year or so after I bought one). But it
has worked fine for me. Caspar *** said there are some rare issues with
the U80/Creator3D combination (I'm not quoting his exact words), but for
me it is OK.

Likewise mixing CPU speed in SPARC 20's is not supported, but many have
done it.