What's New in the Solaris 9 9/04 Operating Environment

Solaris Support for USB Devices

This feature description is new in the Solaris 9 4/04 release and is available for x86 platforms and SPARC platforms.

The following table describes Solaris support for USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices.

 

Solaris 8 HW* Releases 

Solaris 9 Releases 

Solaris 9 4/04 Release 

USB 1.1 

SPARC and x86 

SPARC and x86 

SPARC and x86 

USB 2.0 

SPARC 

N/A 

SPARC and x86 


Note –

Solaris 8 HW does not describe the Solaris 8 releases, but the Solaris 8 Hardware (HW) releases, starting with the Solaris 8 HW 5/03 release. The patch number for the USB dual framework that is found in the Solaris 8 HW 5/03 release is 109896.


For information about USB support on Sun hardware, see Chapter 7, Using USB Devices (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.