Will Solaris 9 drivers work on Solaris 10?

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Published on 2010-05-23T20:40:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 20:51 UTC
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I'm going to try this anyway right now, but since it's a decent question I thought I should throw it on Server Fault. I'd like a reason why they shouldn't work since the Kernel is so old.

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