Volker A. Brandt writes:
> However, I would guess that customer NIC installed base is 90%
> hme eri qfe ge ce. The obvious question is answered only vaguely:
> "Work continues to make other drivers become supported in the
> Brussels implementation." :-( It would be helpful if this were
> given a date, even in a negative way, i.e. "hme and qfe never,
> ge and ce not before 2008Q4" (all facts made up just now by me :-).
Actually, I'd imagine it to be the other way around.
In the current Nevada code, hme and qfe are supported by the same
GLDv3 driver. Stepping up to Brussels ought to be fairly easy as long
as someone interested in doing the work appears.
The ce and ge drivers, though, are in the old NSPG/NSN/CS
consolidation, which isn't open source, and which is unlikely to get
attention. There's a project running to produce a new open driver for
Cassini hardware (likely leaving only ge and gem out in the cold), but
I don't know the current status of that. (Given the special
interactions between 'ce' and Sun Cluster and other odd features, I
wouldn't be surprised to hear that an open driver would not be usable
on a regular Sun distribution. But that's just my guess.)
> Also, you define build 88 to be the next version of OpenSolaris.
> I would just say "snv_88". In a little while, the "next version"
> will confuse people.
I think that refers to the OpenSolaris Developer Preview release,
rather than a particular Nevada build.
I agree that having the code base and one particular distribution
having the same name ("OpenSolaris") is really confusing, but there's
not much I can do about that. ;-}
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