Lars Tunkrans wrote:
Hi,
It seems to me that a lot of traffic in different discussion forums
suffers from the fact that there is a lack of detail in the available info
as to which chip-sets are actually supported by Solaris.
Lots of people buy or try PC hardware and get it working to different
levels of usability.
I belive that a lot of "trail and horror" could be eliminated if
a list like the bigadmin HCL or even the HCL itself, can be setup that
clearly defines all the different chipsets:
Northbridge/Southbridge, and chipsets controlling graphics, ethernet,
audio, USB, and secondary storage that Solaris is known to work with
or designed to work with.
The HCL as it is today where previously tested equipment is listed ,
is not sufficient, because the PC hardware arena is as we know always
in furiuos development, And its simply impossible to buy what was sold
six months ago.
If I know what is supposed to work when I go and buy some new hardware,
I will make fewer return trips to the shop returning unusable pci-boards and
USB devices and will be much happier !
You said it, the HCL is the answer. The problem is that not enough of
us (myself included) are actually contributing enough to it. If we'd
all pitch in it'd be a much more useful resource. While the HCL may
have some limits, I don't think we can think about reimplementing or
duplicating it untill there is a decent reason other than the fact that
very few people are putting in their share of information.
benr.
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