On Thu, 3 May 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Yes. Although, its important that Max's work actually be accurate. I've not > reviewed his info, so I don't know whether it is or not.
I think that Max's work is accurate, and he's taught many classes at SunU on writing device drivers...for that matter Alta Elstad is the one who re-worked "Writing Device Drivers". > Correct. But in theory we could have our own child gate, with our own > putback rules, although ultimately getting anything from _that_ gate into > Nevada would have to follow Nevada rules. > > I'm not sure I see a lot of merit in having a child gate though. We definitely don't need our own gate, far from it. I only want to see some control over the actual code that gets putback, from our community before it goes to ARC and/or c-team, or however that will work in OpenSolaris as a community. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group