[Info-vax] PCI-X on VSI OpenVMS

[Dirk Munk]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes you have a point there. A tool that generates a Quickspec pdf from a 
database could also be a possibility. I still prefer reading paper 
versions of such documents.