Motherboard & CPU

I've just purchased the Intel version of the Solaris 8 Media Kit.
I need to know if there are any particular Intel-based motherboards that work better than others, or any particular boards that don't work well at all...
I also need to know if there are any particular CPUs that work better than others, or any that don't work at all...
Am I restricted to Intel-based chipsets, or will AMD Athlon chipsets work? (AMD chipsets require special drivers to be installed, and those drivers probably are NOT available for the Solaris 8 Media Kits.)
What about AGP video, or the VIA-133 chipset???
Please respond to the following email address:
[email protected]
Thanks in advance, and have a great weekend...
Joe Fisher

- Dell systems seem to be critical with solaris 8: on some
dell systems, the keyboard is messed up during
installation, on others the system does not boot at all
(search http://groups.google.com using the keywords: dell
solaris prom_panic kmem_free)
- Pentium-IV CPUs are not supported by solaris 8
(the latest kernel patch 108529-08 now includes fixes for
P-4 CPUs, so I'd expect that "Solaris-next" runs on that
CPU, too)
AMD CPUs work fine with solaris 8. And Solaris 8 has no
problems with the common chipsets used together with AMD
CPUs either (AMD & VIA). For things like PCI-IDE (DMA,
etc.) solaris relies on your system's bios to properly
configure the PCI-IDE controller; for example solaris can
use UDMA on an Asus A7V board without special chipset
drivers! AGP cards are no problem, either.
But you should really check the Solaris HCL when selecting
hardware for a solaris x86 system:
http://soldc.sun.com/support/certify/reports/reports.html
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html

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