On (05/02/08 10:14), James Carlson wrote: > 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.)
What Jim said. :-) > > > 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 do agree that "next version" can be vague, we'll fix that part, and make it more specific. --Sowmini
