Using Dynamic Reconfiguration; Attaching A System Board; Init Attach - Sun Microsystems Sun Enterprise 10000 Dynamic Reconfiguration User Manual

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Using Dynamic Reconfiguration

Attaching a System Board

This section gives a broad overview of the actions that occur when you execute DR
Attach. For step-by-step instructions, see "To Attach a Board With Hostview".
You can attach system boards that are present in the machine, powered on, and not
part of an active domain (that is, not being used by an operating environment).
These unattached boards may have been hot-swapped into the domain after the
domain was booted, blacklisted when the domain was booted, or detached from
another domain.
Note – If the system board has been hot-swapped into the domain, you should use
the thermcal_config(1M) command immediately after the board has been
powered on.
Prior to attaching a board, diagnostics are run on the board, requiring that at least
one processor be present on the board and not be blacklisted. After you have
selected an eligible board and a target domain, the DR Attach operation proceeds
through two operations: Init Attach and Complete Attach.

Init Attach

During the Init Attach phase, DR diagnoses and configures the selected board,
preparing it and its devices for attachment to the operating environment. During
this phase, DR performs the following tasks:
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