David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are tools around that can tell you if hardware is supported by
Solaris.
One such tool can be found at:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html
Beware of this tool. It reports "Y" for both 32-bit and 64-bit on the
nVidia MCP55 SATA controller -- but in the real world, it's supported
only in compatibility mode, and (fatal flaw for me) *it doesn't
support hot-swap with this controller*. So apparently even a clean
result from this utility isn't a safe indication that the device is
fully supported.
Also, it says that the nVidia MCP55 ethernet is NOT supported in
either 32 or 64 bit, but actually nv_44 found the ethernet without any
trouble. Maybe that's just that the support was extended recently;
the install tool is based on S10 6/06.
Driver support for Solaris Nevada is not the same as Solaris 10 Update 2,
so it is not surprising to see these discrepencies.
In some cases, getting Solaris to support a piece of hardware is as simple
as running the update_drv command to tell it about a new PCI id (these
change often and are central to driver support on all x86 platforms.)
The more I learn about Solaris hardware support, the more I see it as
a minefield.
I've found this to be true for almost all open source platforms where
you're trying to use something that hasn't been explicitly used and
tested by the developers.
Darren
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