Installation guide

Transition From ipge to e1000g NIC Driver as the
Default Ethernet Driver for Sun4V Systems
The ipge driver and all its SUNWipge packages for Sun4V systems might not be available in a
future release of Solaris. Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, Ontario and other SPARC
based platforms transition from ipge to e1000g drivers. The e1000g driver will be the default
Ethernet driver for all Sun platforms that use Intel 1G chipsets.
Solstice Enterprise Agents Support
The following Solstice Enterprise Agents
TM
(SEA) agents, libraries, and packages might not be
supported in a future Solaris release:
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SEA-based SNMP master agent and sub agents
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libssagent and libssasnmp libraries
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SUNWsacom, SUNWsasnm, SUNWmibii packages
The System Management Agent (SMA) provides similar functionality for the aforementioned
sources.
32-bit x86: Extended Memory File System Support
The extended memory le system (xmemfs) might not be supported in a future Solaris release.
For more information, see the xmemfs(7FS) man page.
StandardType Services Framework Support
Standard Type Service Framwork (STSF) might not be available in a future Solaris release.
This includes the following:
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libST and libXst libraries
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xstls command
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stfsloader service
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XST extension to Xsun and Xorg servers
You can nd this functionality in one of the following alternative sources:
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libX11
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libXft2
Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
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