This document provides information about general IA hardware
requirements and the peripherals and system platforms that are supported in Solaris
TM
8 x86 Platform Edition
.
It documents cumulative changes since the release of Solaris 8 x86 Platform Edition
, including those documented in the Solaris 8 (x86 Platform Edition) 6/00 Hardware Compatibility List
and the Solaris 8 (x86 Platform Edition) 10/00 Hardware Compatibility
List
.
Note -
In this document the term "IA" refers to the x86 32-bit processor architecture, which includes the Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium
II, Pentium II Xeon, Celeron, Pentium III, and Pentium III Xeon processors
and compatible microprocessor chips made by AMD and Cyrix.
Note -
System platforms listed in this document are tested "as-shipped"
by the hardware manufacturers, but due to the nature of this industry, there
might be unexpected and unannounced changes.
Before a system can be certified, every disk, network, and video controller
in the system must be certified. This means that each controller runs on an
existing Solaris driver or on a driver that has been certified by Sun. All
Sun certified controllers are listed in
Supported Devices
and
Devices Supported by Verified Third-Party Drivers
.
It is common practice for hardware vendors to release variants of a
particular hardware design under a single marketing name. In some cases, not
all variants will work with the current Solaris device driver. Check the “Device Reference Pages” in the Solaris 8 (x86 Platform
Edition) Device Configuration Guide
to see if they provide
additional information about specific hardware versions supported by the current
Solaris device driver.
