XVR-2500 - will it work on a sun blade 2500?

[Bill Isaacs]

I've been researching hardware for my machine, which I've just taken delivery on, and am curious if there would be any hardware compatibility issues with the xvr-2500. The machine currently has the xvr-600, and I want the fastest possible accelerator I can put in it.

Suggestions from the Zen Masters in here?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Post by Bill Isaacs
I've been researching hardware for my machine, which I've just taken delivery on, and am curious if there would be any hardware compatibility issues with the xvr-2500. The machine currently has the xvr-600, and I want the fastest possible accelerator I can put in it.

Not sure why you're asking perf-discuss and opensolaris-discuss, and not the
more-on-topic xwin-discuss, but the short answer is that it is physically
impossible to connect a XVR-2500 in a Sun Blade 2500.

The XVR-2500 is a PCI-E x16 board, the Sun Blade 2500 has no PCI-E slots.
You need an Ultra 25 or 45 to get a SPARC workstation with PCI-E slots.

The Sun Blade 2500 only has PCI slots. The only SPARC PCI graphics card
with support included in OpenSolaris 2009.06 or Solaris 11 is the XVR-100.

(Solaris 10 supports a wider range of SPARC graphics, including the XVR-600
and all other graphics boards Sun sold that can fit into a Sun Blade 2500.
Other distros may support more cards - check their HCL's/documentation.)