On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 at 14:48, Atiq Rahman <ati...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many common Ethernet/LAN drivers are absent. > Common wireless drivers are also missing. > Graphics drivers are broken or nonexistent for much of today’s and > yesterday's hardware.
FWIW, these are all issues for illumos as a whole, rather than specifically OpenIndiana. I agree that they are important issues to tackle! > I’d be happy to help test or provide feedback on any efforts aimed at > improving these. The thing is, providing feedback or offering to test things is not really what we need. We need people willing to actually write the drivers, and to do work on the graphics subsystems (updating the port of DRM from Linux, in particular). You may say "ah, but I am not a kernel developer, I can not do those things"! But the kernel is just a big C program, and everybody who is comfortable working on it now started out from a point where they were not yet able to do that. If you want to see progress, pick an issue and work on it. Other folks in the community can provide advice and help you if you get stuck! Otherwise, things will continue largely as they have. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T55bf4e75b420a66a-M45b3a740416a469fd4ddf60e Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
