James Carlson wrote:
> 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.)
>
>
Note that for ISVs willing to work to integrate their sources into ON
(for which there can be significant benefits, but some additional effort
is involved, as well as an open licensing burden), GLDv3 is available
now within OpenSolaris.
-- Garrett
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