Sun Microsystems 880 Sun PCI Cards That Support PCI Hot-Plug

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 5

This patch is not OS-dependant. Included in this firmware upgrade are enhanced

OpenBoot™ tools for service providers. The patch is recommended for Sun Fire 880

systems that have installed versions of OBP earlier than 4.4.7. For more information

about the patch, including installation instructions, read the patch description.

Sun PCI Cards That Support PCIHot-Plug

For a PCI card to be successfully detached from a running operating environment,

each device on the cardmust have a detach-safe driver. A detach-safe driver enables a

single instance of a driver to be closed while other instances are allowed to remain

open to service similar devices used elsewhere in the system. Tobe considered

detach-safe, a driver must be able to perform a basic Device Driver Interface/Device

Kernel Interface (DDI/DKI) function called DDI_DETACH. Any driver that does not

support the DDI_DETACH function is considered detach-unsafe.

Sun Microsystems offers a variety of hot-pluggable PCI cards that use detach-safe

device drivers. The following table lists the PCI cards that have been tested and

verified as being detach-safe as of the publication date of this document.

PatchID Description

112186-02or later Sun Fire880 Flash PROM Update (4.4.7 OBP)

SunPart

Number CardType Driver(s)

X1032A 10/100BaseT Sun FastEthernet + SE Ultra/Wide SCSI fas/sd, hme

X1033A 10/100BaseT Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter hme

X6540A Dual Channel Single-ended Ultra/Wide SCSI glm

X6541A Dual Channel Differential Ultra/Wide SCSI glm

X6799A Sun StorEdge PCI Single Fibre Channel Network Adapter qlc

X1141A Sun PCI Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card ge

X1034A Quad FastEthernet PCI Card qfe

X1150A Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Network Interface Card ce