Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Systems

Dynamic reconfiguration (DR) is supported for Solaris 8 2/02. This section includes open issues for DR on the Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 systems at the time of this release.

For information on the system controller firmware that contains DR functionality, refer to the Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Systems Software Release Notes included with the 5.12.6 firmware release. This firmware and related documentation is included in SunSolve patch 112127-02, which is available on the SunSolve web site (http://sunsolve.Sun.com).

These release notes for dynamic reconfiguration (DR) on Sun Fire 6800, 4810, 4800, and 3800 systems cover the following topics:

• Dynamic Reconfiguration Software Installation Instructions

• Known DR Limitations

• Dynamic Reconfiguration Software Bugs

System-Specific DR Support

System-specific DR support on the 6800/4810/4800/3800 systems is shown by the cfgadm command. System boards are indicated as class “sbd.” CompactPCI (cPCI) cards are shown as class “pci.” Users of DR through the cfgadm interface will see other DR classes as well.

For more information about system-specific problems with DR, see Known Dynamic Reconfiguration Bugs.

To view the classes that are associated with attachment points, run the following command as superuser:

Dynamic attachment points may also be listed by using the cfgadm command with the -a option. To determine the class of a specific attachment point, add the point as an argument to the above command.