[Info-vax] PCI-X on VSI OpenVMS

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-09 13:59:50 +0000, Dirk Munk said:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2016-09-09 10:02:37 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>> 
>>> Really. I don't even know where to put those PCI and PCI-X adapters.   
>>> The only new Itanium rack system that HPE is selling *and* is certified 
>>> for VMS, is the RX2800. It doesn't have PCI or PCI-X slots........
>>> 
>>> I wonder is there is any Itanium system with PCI or PCI-X slots, 
>>> perhaps this list of adapters was copied from the HP Alpha quickspecs 
>>> for VMS 8.4??
>> 
>> There are (older) Itanium systems that are supported by VSI OpenVMS 
>> releases that do have PCI-X slots.   e.g. The rx2660 is supported by 
>> VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2, and can have PCI-X slots.
>> 
> Fine, that is in the best of VMS tradition. Never the less if we assume 
> some one wants to set up a new VMS system, he will be very surprised to 
> see ancient PCI adapters named fist, and more modern PCIe adapters 
> later. If you want to proof that VMS is very much alive and a modern 
> OS, this doesn't help.

Listing hardware support in QuickSpecs or SPD or whatever VSI calls 
that is already an issue.    That's a job for a database, not a 
human-generated PDF.   HPE SPOCK, though HPE has seemingly been 
fragmenting that configuration support information.   A database 
particularly because the hardware support inevitably becomes — and 
arguably already is — more complex than what the traditional 
QuickSpecs/SPD/whatever can reasonably represent.




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