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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What's New |
1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration
SPARC: Support for ITU Construction Tools on SPARC Platforms
Oracle Solaris Upgrade Enhancement for Oracle Solaris Zone- Cluster Nodes
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle Solaris Zones
Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris 10 System Into a Zone
Updating Packages by Using the New zoneadm attach -U Option
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Memory Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability
Virtual Disk Multipathing Enhancements
Virtual Domain Information Command and API
System Administration Enhancements
Oracle Solaris ZFS Features and Enhancements
x86: Support for the IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR
Support for Multiple Disk Sector Size
Sparse File Support in the cpio Command
x86: 64-Bit libc String Functions Improvements With SSE
Automated Rebuilding of sendmail Configuration Files
Automatic Boot Archive Recovery
x86: Intel AES-NI Optimization
New Oracle Solaris Unicode Locales
Device Management Enhancements
x86: HP Smart Array HBA Driver
x86: Support for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver
x86: New SATA HBA Driver, bcm_sata, for Broadcom HT1000 SATA Controllers
Support for SATA/AHCI Port Multiplier
Support for Netlogic NLP2020 PHY in the nxge Driver
BIND 9.6.1 for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Open Fabrics User Verbs Primary Kernel Components
InfiniBand Infrastructure Enhancements
Support for the setxkbmap Command
ixgbe Driver to Integrate Intel Shared Code Version 3.1.9
Broadcom Support to bge Networking Driver
x86: Fully Buffered DIMM Idle Power Enhancement
Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0ps9
Enhancements to the mdb Command to Improve the Debugging Capability of kmem and libumem
The following Fault Management Architecture (FMA) enhancements have been added to the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
The Oracle Solaris OS now recognizes the model corresponding to Advanced Micro Devices Istanbul. With FMA support for Istanbul, the Generic AMD FM topology has been enabled for Model 8 of AMD Family 0x10. All features relating to FMA's error reporting and diagnosis that are available for the earlier Family 0x10 CPUs accommodates the Istanbul CPUs.
The Oracle Solaris FMA software has been updated to support the memory errors of the DDR2 DIMMs of the Oracle Netra CP3250 blade server. The existing generic Intel FMA provides support for CPU error reporting and diagnosis of this new blade. The Oracle Solaris OS and FMA diagnosis rules have been updated to generate e–reports of the memory errors of DDR2 DIMMs. The topology has been updated to generate the memory configuration and the rules diagnose memory e–reports.
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