On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:28:04 -0500 (CDT), [email protected] (Jay G. Scott) wrote: > greetings, > > i'm a noob. forgive my ignorance. > > the HCL as is presently stands doesn't list any of the motherboards > that interest me; i've written simple/trivial drivers once or twice. > what's involved in getting a random motherboard to run solaris? > it is something i'd have a shot at doing, or does it take tools/whatever > that joe nobody isn't likely to have? > > j. >
As far as the OS is concerned, motherboards are just a CPU, a bus, and some chips attached to it. Solaris/OpenSolaris will most likely work to some degree on any random x86 board, but specific chipsets may include disk controllers, NICs, or video chips that don't have drivers available. -Albert _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
