[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL

[Dave Koelmeyer]

>> I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL (Hardware
>> Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give community
>> members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not, and
>> perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific to that
>> hardware.
>>
>> With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base sooner or
>> later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't expect OI
>> to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is going to
>> penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather than
>> the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the load off
>> the bug submission etc.
>>
>> For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle HCLpage
>> (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere
>> (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/).

Anybody wanting to take Matthew's suggestion and run with it? I don't 
know how to make this happen, perhaps a section on the Wiki or 
something, but given recent discussion over storage adaptors etc this 
would be a very useful resource.

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Dave Koelmeyer
http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/