andrew wrote: > Some sort of ITU-like facility in 2008.11 would be nice. > > At the moment OpenSolaris (the distro) has worse device support than SXCE, > since it is missing the closed source drivers from Sun Solaris, and you can't > (easily) install your own drivers at install time. This seems odd given that > OpenSolaris is meant to entice new users to the platform. > > To get the widest device support in OpenSolaris, you ideally want: > > -- binaries for all of the closed source drivers included in SXCE > -- support for Solaris ITUs > -- binaries for as many open-source drivers as possible > -- as many device IDs as possible listed in /etc/driver_aliases >
We're doing the last two. The encumbered drivers (it's not closed source, but licensing restrictions on the resulting binary that keeps them off the CD) will be available in a separate repository. We'd gladly consider contributions that made Solaris ITU's work, but don't have resources to work on that problem specifically right now. Dave
