Supported Versions of Oracle Solaris OS, Firmware, and Software
Determining Oracle Solaris 11 OS Package Update Version
Determining Oracle Solaris 10 Patch Revision
Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 08/11 OS
Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 OS
Minimum Required Patchsets and SPARC Bundle for Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS
Rules for I/O Slot Use by Certain Cards
Mandatory System Firmware Patch
ALOM CMT Compatibility Shell Not Supported
Oracle VM Server for SPARC Direct I/O Support
Not Oracle Certified DIMM Warning Message (CR 7034912)
Custom nvalias Settings Will Not Change During a System Reconfiguration
SPARC T3 Series Servers Do Not Support Sun Type 6 Keyboards
Large Third-Party PCIe Cards Are Not Supported in PCIe Slot 8
Front-Panel Video Port Does Not Support Resolutions Greater Than 1024 x 768 (CR 7021609)
MegaRAID Storage Manager Does Not Discover Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal (CR 6971789)
Installing Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal, Disables the DVD Drive
Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal, Must Be Installed In PCIe2 Slot 0 (CR 6982358)
Server Panics When Booting From a USB Thumbdrive Attached to the Front USB Ports (CR 6983185)
Copper QSFP Cables Not Supported (CR 6941888)
Installing Multiple Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Cards Causes Errors On First Boot (CR 6988352)
Error Messages Not Retained After UE and CE Memory Failures (CR 6990058)
Replace Faulty DIMMs With Uncorrectable Errors (UEs) As Soon As Possible (CR 6996144)
Cold Reset Adds One Day to System Time (CR 7127740)
Oracle Solaris OS Has Changed How It Specifies Logical Device Names
Multiple Uncorrectable Errors Might Cause an Unexpected bad kernel MMU Panic (CR 6947664)
Cannot Boot Oracle Solaris OS 10 10/09 OS DVD From the Internal DVD Drive
prtpicl Command Does Not Display Drive Information (CR 6963594)
Spurious Error Message During Initial Oracle Solaris OS Installation (CR 6971896)
Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console (CR 6963563)
Upgrading the Server Hardware Might Create Incorrect Device Instances (CR 6974219)
False nxge Warning Messages (CR 6938085)
mptsas request inquiry page 0x89 for SATA target:a Failed Messages (CR 6986482)
qlge Driver Panics When the MTU Is Set to 9000 (CR 6964519)
Missing Interrupt Causes USB Hub Hotplug Thread to Hang, Resulting In Process Hangs (CR 6968801)
Oracle Enterprise Manager Process Hangs and Becomes Unkillable (CR 6994300)
cfgadm Command Takes a Long Time to Print Output (CR 6937169)
Proving Physical Presence When Recovering a Lost Oracle ILOM SP Password
Oracle ILOM break Followed By OBP sync Will Result in an Aborted Panic Dump (CR 6923763)
Four or Fewer Sun Dual 10 GbE SFP+ PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Adapters Are Supported (CR 6977073)
System Hangs During Boot Process (CR 6956116)
Note - You should install the latest patches or package updates available for the version of the Oracle Solaris OS installed on your system.
Updates to Oracle Solaris 11 are provisioned using package updates called Support Repository Updates (SRUs) instead of patches. SRUs are part of a new OS provisioning scheme called the Image Packaging System (IPS).
To determine the package version of the Oracle Solaris 11 OS installed on your system, run the pkg info kernel command and then interpret the FMRI value displayed in the output. This is an example:
# pkg info kernel Name: system/kernel Summary: Core Kernel Description: Core operating system kernel, device drivers and other modules. Category: System/Core State: Installed Publisher: solaris Version: 0.5.11 Build Release: 5.11 Branch: 0.175.0.2.0.2.1 Packaging Date: Wed Oct 19 07:57:11 2011 Size: 17.99 MB FMRI: pkg://solaris/system/kernel@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.0.2.0.2.1: 20111128T20503
Then evaluate the following three fields in the FMRI value:
175 -- The value 175 indicates that the system has Oracle Solaris 11 OS installed. This value is a constant for Oracle Solaris 11.
0 -- The first field to the right of “175” indicates the update release. In this example, there have been no updates to the initial release.
2 -- The next field contains the SRU value. In this example, the second patch bundle (called SRU2) has been installed on Oracle Solaris 11, update 0.
You can ignore the other fields in the FMRI package description.
When you know which version of the OS is installed, you can access a list of all the packages contained in that release from the following web page:
http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/en/index.shtml
To list the packages contained in a particular Oracle Solaris 11 release, select that release in the Release and Branch pull-down menu and press the Browse button. Or you can search for individual packages in the Search for: window.
If your system is currently running Oracle Solaris 10, you can find its patch level with the commands showrev(1M) and uname(1). This is shown in the following example:
# showrev Hostname: ********* Host id: ********* Release: 5.10 Kernel architecture: sun4v Application architecture: sparc Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems Domain: Ecd.East.Sun.COM Kernel version SunOS 5.10 Generic_142909-17 # uname -a SunOS ********* Generic_142909-17 sun4v sparc sun4v # showrev -p | tail -3 Patch: 143525-01 Obsoletes: Requires: 118833-36, 127127-11 Incompatibles: Packages:SUNWcsu Patch: 143125-01 Obsoletes: 138079-01 138089-01 Requires: 120011-14 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 121557-01 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWpiclu #
No additional patches are required before using the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 08/11 OS. However, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
Note - The download of the Solaris 10 8/11 SPARC Bundle is identified by the number 14158708 at http://support.oracle.com.
Install the patches listed in Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 before using the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 OS.
Table 1-3 Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10
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In addition, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
Note - The download of the Solaris 10 09/10 SPARC Bundle is identified by the number 13153809 at http://support.oracle.com.
To use the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS, install the patches listed in Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10, as well as the Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 SPARC Bundle. In addition, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
Note - The download of the Solaris 10 8/11 SPARC Bundle is identified by the number 13153814 at http://support.oracle.com.