Outline of Criteria for entry into Solaris Ready Program for PCI Add-in Cards and Devices for all Sun Platforms

Goals of the Program include qualifying products for the Solaris Ready Program, promoting customer awareness, and enabling identification and selection of high quality add-on products for Sun's platform customers.

A PCI card element consists of an PCI device or bridge, which implements the services. Sun's Solaris Ready Program shall add the additional criteria to PCI products.

Company Criteria:

1. Channel distribution, service and support in geographies worldwide
2. Ability to provide vendor updates.
3. Agreement to support newer versions of the Solaris OS in a timely manner (where applicable)
4. Acquire Sun platforms for the development and support of the Solaris OS.

Product Criteria:

1. Meet the Solaris Ready Platform Support, Installation Criteria, Diagnostics, Additional Criteria as listed below.
2. Include appropriate cables as required.
3. Ensure documentation describes installation.
4. Documentation for updates and patches on company website or CD-ROM.
5. Include sufficient packaging materials and other materials unique to the product.
6. Mechanical and electrical compliance criteria as specified by the corresponding PCI SIG specifications.
7. PCI Card installation and system identification of product under test.
8. ROHS compliance for international compliance criteria effective 01/01/06.

Product Support:

1. Make pre-sales specification and product information available on line.
2. Provide product warranty and technical support information.
3. Maintain a supported Sun system configuration list for customers, including supported system configurations and known restrictions or conflicts.

Platform Support:

1. Product must be operable on all Sun platforms, or identified in documentation for specific platform issues.
2. The duty cycle shall be applicable for the product type for 24 continuous hours.

Installation Criteria:

1. Mechanical compliance with Sun platforms.
2. System V Package Installation Format using pkgadd(1M) and pkgrm(1M) utilities.
3. PCI Hardware Compliance.
4. Boot Verification with PCI card and device driver.
5. Solaris DDI Compliance of device drivers.
6. Power management (such as Energy Star) as applicable.
7. Interoperability with other PCI devices.

Diagnostics:

1. Self Diagnostic to isolate failure.
2. User level diagnostic for end user use.

Additional Criteria:

1. Complete the Basic Test section of the the Solaris Ready testing of Third Party PCI Cards shall be used.
2. Functional tests of the Solaris Ready testing of Third Party PCI Cards, utilizing SunVTS technology or Sun HCTS on latest two major releases of Solaris OS as applicable to the specific product technology under test.
3. The products should function as described in product documentation manuals on UltraSPARC and/or x64 (AMD Opteron processor-based) platforms, where applicable.
4. Vendor is required to inform Sun of any changes/revisions to their hardware, firmware or software at least 1 month in advance of the change. Vendor products that are obsolete or modified within the 6 month period of nomination will need to be re-tested.