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Solaris 7 OnLine Release Notes (SUNWrdm)

End of Software Support Statements for Future Releases of the Solaris Operating Environment

F3 Font Technology

F3 fonts and the TypeScaler rasterizer, Sun Microsystems' proprietary scalable font technology, may be removed in a future release. Sun Microsystems, Inc. will continue to support the industry standard font formats Type1 and TrueType.

XGL

XGL may be removed in a future release. Starting with the Solaris 7 release, the following warning is generated when a XGL program is compiled:


#error: "XGL has been declared Obsolete and may not be present in
versions of Solaris after 7.
#define SUNXGL_WARNING_DISABLE (or use -D) to disable this message."

To compile a XGL program, disable the message by adding #define to the program:


# define SUNXGL_WARNING_DISABLE

or by using the following compiler directive:


-DSUNXGL_WARNING_DISABLE

Derived type paddr_t

The paddr_t data type found in sys/types.h is not supported in the 64-bit compilation environment. It is currently only available in the 32-bit compilation environment. It may be removed from all compilation environments in a future release.

Solaris JavaTM Development KitTM: JNITM 1.0 Interface

The 1.0 version of the Java Native Interface (JNI 1.0) may not be supported by the Solaris Java Development Kit version 1.2 (JDK 1.2).

Support in the Solaris Java Development Kit (JDK) for the 1.0 version of the Java Native Interface (JNI 1.0) may be removed in a future release. JNI 1.0 is also known as the Native Method Interface (NMI).

Kerberos Version 4 Client

The Kerberos version 4 client may be removed in a future release. This includes the Kerberos version 4 support in the kinit(1), kdestroy(1), klist(1), ksrvtgt(1), mount_nfs(1M), share_nfs(1M), and kerbd(1M) commands, in the kerberos(3N) library, and in the ONC RPC programming API (kerberos_rpc(3N)).

Planned Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data

There are two sets of APIs that allow user accounting data to be accessed by applications. The preferred set of programming interfaces for accessing and manipulating user accounting information is described on the getutxent(3C) man page. These are both more capable and more portable than the older getutent(3C) routines.

Older applications may access the underlying accounting files directly. The files /var/adm/utmp and /var/adm/wtmp, and the corresponding symbolic links /etc/utmp and /etc/wtmp may be removed in a future release. The format of the data contained in these files constrain the future evolution of the Solaris operating environment. Applications using these files should be updated to use the documented and supported APIs.

Applications that are already using the getutent(3C) family of routines may be unaffected on small system configurations. However, in future releases these interfaces may return errors when used on very large system configurations. For this reason, use the getutxent(3C) routines for both old and new code in place of the getutent(3C) APIs.

x86 only: Console Subsystem

The console subsystem for the Solaris operating environment running on an x86 based system may be replaced in a future release. The replacement may be more compatible with one for the Solaris operating environment running on a SPARC based system and therefore provides for future extensibility. This may invalidate a large number of undocumented and unsupported interfaces, as well as some documented interfaces.

Documented interfaces:

Undocumented and unsupported interfaces:

x86 only: Support of Video Devices

Support for the following video devices may be removed in a future release:

x86 only: Driver Support

The Solaris operating environment running on an x86 based system currently supports numerous devices based on the ISA and EISA I/O buses. Support for these devices and the device drivers written specifically for them may be removed in a future release.

The following device drivers that support only ISA and EISA devices may be removed in a future release. Note that drivers marked with an asterisk (*) also support PCI devices; these drivers continue to be included in the Solaris operating environment to support PCI devices only.

SCSI Host Bus Adapters, Disk Arrays/RAID Controllers

aic

Adaptec AHA-1510A, AHA-1520A/1522A, AHA-1530P/1532P, AIC-6260, AIC-6360 (ISA)

Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 SCSI-2 Interface

aha

Adaptec AHA-1540B/1542B, AHA-1540C/1542C, AHA-1540CF/1542CF, AHA-1540CP/1542CP (ISA)

eha

Adaptec AHA-1740/1742A (EISA)

esa

Adaptec AHA-2740/2742, AHA-2740A/2742A, AHA-2740T/2742T, AHA-2740AT/2742AT, AHA-2740W/2742W, AHA-2840A/2842A, AHA-2840VL/2842VL, AIC-7770, AIC-7770 Rev. E (EISA, VLB)

blogic

BusLogic/Mylex BT-440C, BT-445C, BT-445S, BT-542B, BT-545C, BT-545S, BT-742A, BT-746C, BT-747C, BT-747S, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-757S (ISA, EISA, VLB)

cpqncr*

Compaq 32-bit Fast-Wide SCSI-2/E, Integrated 32-bit Fast-Wide SCSI-2/E (support removed for EISA only)

csa

Compaq SMART Array Controller (EISA)

smartii*

Compaq SMART-2 EISA Array Controller (support removed for EISA only)

dpt

DPT PM2011, PM2012B, PM2021, PM2022, PM2041, PM2041W, PM2042, PM2042W, PM2122, PM2142W, PM3021, PM3222, PM3222UW, PM3332UW (ISA, EISA)

mlx*

Mylex DAC960E (support removed for EISA only)

trantor

Trantor T348 MiniSCSI Plus Parallel

Adaptec APA-348 MiniSCSI

Ethernet Network Adapters

elx*

3Com EtherLink III (3C509, 3C509B, 3C592 Bus Master, 3C597-TX Bus Master) (support removed for ISA, EISA only)

pcn*

Allied Telesyn AT-1500, AT-1500T-Plus, AT-1500BT-Plus (support removed for ISA only)

AMD PCnet-ISA controller chip

Cabletron E-2210

Microdyne NE2000, NE2500plus

nfe

Compaq NetFlex-2 DualPort ENET, NetFlex-2 ENET-TR Controllers (EISA)

cnft*

Compaq NetFlex-3/E (all models) (support removed for EISA only)

iee

Intel EtherExpress 16, EtherExpress 16TP, EtherExpress 16C (82586) (ISA)

ieef

Intel EtherExpress 32, EtherExpress Flash32, EtherExpress FlashC (82596) (EISA)

Unisys EISA Ethernet controller

Unisys U6000/DT2 integrated Ethernet controller

eepro

Intel EtherExpress PRO (82595), EtherExpress PRO/10+ (82595FX) (ISA)

ieef*

Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 (82556) (support removed for EISA only)

nei

Novell/Eagle Technology NE2000, NE2000plus (ISA)

Accton EN1625, EtherCombo-16

Alta EtherCombo-16 T/C

Kingston KNE2000T+, KNE2002+, KNE2031+, KNE2121+, KNE2121H

National Semiconductor Infomover NE2000plus

Olicom EtherCom ISA/II

Thomas Conrad NE2000

nee

Novell/Eagle Technology NE3200 (EISA)

smce

SMC Elite32 (8033) (EISA)

smceu

SMC Elite32C Ultra (8232) (EISA)

smcf

SMC Ether 10/100 (9232) (EISA)

smc

SMC EtherCard PLUS (8003), EtherCard PLUS Elite (8013), EtherCard PLUS Elite16 (8013), EtherCard Elite16 Ultra (8216), EtherCard Elite32T (8033T), EtherEZ (8416) (ISA)

pe

Xircom Pocket Ethernet Adapter III (PE3 and PE2)

Token Ring Network Adapters

tr

IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring, Token Ring 16/4 Adapter/A, Turbo 16/4 Token Ring (ISA, EISA)

3Com TokenLink III (3C619, 3C679)

mtok*

Madge Smart 16/4 AT Plus, Smart 16/4 AT PnP, Smart 16/4 EISA, Smart 16/4 ISA Client Plus, Smart 16/4 ISA Client PnP (support removed for ISA, EISA only)

End of Software Support Statements for Previous Releases

Support for the following was removed from previous releases:

2.6

SPARCserver 630MP, 670MP, 690MP systems and 600 series options

Sun4 system support for Solaris 2.5

Dataless client system type

NewsPrint software (with exception of Japan and Korea)

Motif Window Manager (MWM)

F3 Font technology

Direct XlibTM (SPARC only)

2.5.1

sccs get -r behavior

GS graphics device (SPARC only)

GT graphics device (SPARC only)

Uppercase user name

ssacli(1M) command

Support of systems with Intel 80386 chips