Hi Garrett, hi James!
Garrett D'Amore writes:
> As soon as my current workload settles, I've agreed to convert hme/qfe,
> as well as several other drivers (eri, afe, mxfe) to Brussels. Its
> likely to be about a month before I dedicate the time this project needs.
You da man! [Apart from top-posting, that is :-)]
> James Carlson wrote:
> > 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.
This sounds great! (See above :-)
> > 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.)
Hmmm.... this means there is some likelihood for a schism like
either "S10 + old ce + Solaris Cluster + no Brussels"
or "OpenSolaris + new ce + OpenHA + Brussels"?
Well, better that than nothing I suppose. The part about ge in the
cold made all my nice ge cards on the shelf cringe and squeak though.
> >> 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 thought the authors just wanted to point out that snv_88 has not
been released at the time of writing.
> > 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. ;-}
Explaining confusion? No problem. That's what we top-notch high-tech
consultants are for. :-)
Regards -- Volker
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