On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > > Shawn: > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> wrote: > >> Are there still plans for integrating the OSS drivers into opensolaris. > >> Some time ago there was, but never saw it coming ;-) > > > > Yes. I know they are still working on it. > > Last time I talked with the OSS team about it, they suggested they were > targeting phase 1 into Nevada build 88, though they suggested this might > slip due to resourcing. Phase 1 is only introducing drivers, and not > the actual OSS interfaces, so this will improve driver support but will > not support building programs that depend on OSS interfaces. Phase 1 > will only support the existing SADA (Sun Audio Device Architecture) > interfaces (see "man audio"). > > I believe OSS interfaces are planned to integrate with OSS Phase 3, > which is targeting 2009. However, this could easily change. I > understand there is some push to integrate Phase 3 more early, but > it is too soon to tell about that.
Yep. That matches the ARC case I saw, and the things I've heard from the 4Front folks. Thanks Brian! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
