>> No. Officially, all SPARC workstations older than Ultra 25/45 are EOL
>> and not supported on anything newer than Solaris 10. The Ultra 5/10
>> use the same m64 driver for the onboard graphics as the Sun Blade
>> 100/150.
This really does bother me. There are quite a few people in the world that
have decent Sparc based workstations with fairly decent graphics systems
in them. Let's forget the "people" for a moment and look at some very
large corporations out there, like Siemens. Now those guys use Sparc
based workstations with
Sun Ultra[tm] 27 Workstation:
* Intel Xeon 3500 series Quad-Core Processors
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 graphics accelerator (quantity one)
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 graphics accelerator (quantity two)
Older and still supported ( for now ) :
Sun Ultra[tm] 25 Workstation:
* 1.34GHz UltraSPARC IIIi
* XVR-300 x8 Graphics Accelerator,
* XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator, R
* XVR-300X16 Graphics Accelerator,
* XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (64MB)
* XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator
Note: Solaris 10 currently does not support
dual graphics cards, each driving a monitor.
Sun Ultra[tm] 45 Workstation:
* 1.6GHz UltraSPARC IIIi ( dual sockets )
* graphics, same as Ultra 25
Older yet very very nice machines to have on one's desk :
Sun Blade[tm] 2500 (Silver) Workstation
* 1.6GHz UltraSPARC[tm] IIIi ( dual sockets )
* XVR-1200 Graphics Accelerator
* XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (32MB)
* XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator (64MB)
* XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator
Personal note, these are great machines and so long
as they work there is no need for the same CPU's on
the Ultra 45.
There are the other Sun Blade ( whatever blade means ) workstations which have
various Sparc CPU's in them and some PCI slot that can accept a graphics card
of some sort. If the code is available or the drivers from Martin Bochniq then
why not simply say "these work well with OpenSolaris"?
Perhaps the real issue us that Oracle/Sun forgot what the community was all
about and are now simply in product mode thinking and supported product talk.
Dennis
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