OBP ( OpeBootProm ) compliancy

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The Sun System Handbook will have a link for each system that describes the System Specifications.

Every Sun system that has native PCI slots is compliant with the 2.1 spec.

I just glanced through a few of the SSH pages and seem to remember that the Ultra-30 was the first PCI-based system to ship to customers, in May 1997.

Here is the U-30 page in the SSH

<a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U30/U30.html" target="_blank">http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U30/U30.html< ;/a>

Since the 2.1 spec was included in that system design, then the board designs of everything newer would likely comply -- no sense to go backward.

The only son-of-a-gun PCI-slot item that I have doubts about would be the oldest PCI I/O boards for the Enterprise systems [ E3000 -- E6500 ], but those boards probably comply with the spec as well.

Does anyone remember when that specification was published?

Bill at 2007-7-5 14:09:54 >