Dick Davies wrote:
On 11/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Peter van Gemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You might want to check the HCL at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl to
>> find out which hardware is supported by Solaris 10.
> I tried that myself - there really isn't very much on there.
> I can't believe Solaris runs on so little hardware (well, I know
most of
> my kit isn't on there), so I assume it isn't updated that much...
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
That doesn't help with buying hardware though -
I'm quite happy to buy hardware specifically for an OS
(like I've always done for my BSD boxes and linux) but it's
annoying to be forced to do trial and error .
There is a process for submitting input back to Sun on driver testing
I thought so (had that experience trying to get a variant of iprb added
to device_aliases) and I can understand why, but an overly conservative
HCL just feeds the 'Solaris supports hardly any hardware' argument
against
adoption.
Is there any chance that we can get a better maintained list of hardware
devices supported under Nevada (OpenSolaris) on the OpenSolaris.org site
somewhere? And have it actually updated quickly after developers
putback driver support into NV?
Given that Nevada has a much greater reach for drivers, the standard
Solaris 10 HCL page on BigAdmin is pretty far behind. At least, a
listing of the various chipsets supported (not necessarily specific
motherboards/add-in cards, but at least the base chips) would be really
nice for everyone.
-Erik
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