Sumit Gupta writes: > Browsing through this forum, I can see that this topic has been touched > before but I dont see any answer as to 'when'. We are looking into developing > a GLDv3 driver for a future product for both solaris 10 and opensolaris (and > the answer to the question may be different for S10 and opensolaris). GLDv3 > is the obvious choice for the interface but it seems that we cannot use it as > a future s10 patch or an opensolaris release may break the driver. Is there > any plan to make the interface stable in near future so that we can start the > development today. If so, any estimates around when is it planned to be done > ? Or is it pretty much that dont use it until some indefinite future when the > interface will become stable.
I can't see it happening until some time next year, and when it does happen, I would expect that the changes that have been made will _not_ be compatible with S10 so that there's no migration path between the two. In other words, I expect that there to be a public GLDv3 interface some time next year for OpenSolaris, but possibly never for Solaris 10 due to the incompatibilities. For S10, I'd suggest sticking with either GLDv2 or DLPI. (That's just my view based on the projects I see in progress now within OpenSolaris; I don't and can't speak for Sun itself. If you need an "official" opinion, you'd probably need to work that through Sun's support group.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
