Hello j, In my experience you will find that, barring only a very small subset of chips, almost all motherboards and all the chips on them, just works, despite them not being on the HCL.
My first suggestion is to boot the OpenSolaris live CD up on a system and open the included Device Driver Utility. It will report any unsupported hardware that it detects, I.e any devices for which it does not know what device driver to load. If you have not bought the motherboard yet, you may be able to find a friendly shop assistant allowing you to test a system in the shop. Otherwise post the motherboard make-and-model numbers in the email forums to ask for experiences with it and OpenSolaris. Note that in some cases modifying the driver /etc/driver_aliases file will allow you to "inform" OpenSolaris that it can use existing DriverX for a supposedly unknown or new deviceA. Good luck, _J On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Jay G. Scott <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > driver-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss > -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com
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