Hi David, David Gwynne wrote: > Apart from Garrett I have had no response regarding my proposal to > have mfi integrated into OpenSolaris.
well, perhaps not in public > Saying some vendor driver may be supplied sometime in the near future > (where near obviously has a meaning different to the one I thought it > had) is a poor excuse to ignore code that has been developed openly, > is functional, and is able to be integrated now. The pain of replacing > mfi with a possibly better driver later isn't comparable to not having > any driver at all. Buying a brick isn't fun. > If there is a final answer as to why mfi cannot be integrated then the > RFE I have opened should be closed and this proposal should be > rejected with a clear explanation as to why. If the integration of the > LSI driver really is going to go ahead then a project to handle that > integration should be proposed instead. As the engineer who owns your RFE inside Sun, I would like to say that I've been ready to go with the requisite procedural paperwork for months. I have, however, been blocked due to political concerns (not of my making). I want to see mfi integrated into OpenSolaris as soon as physically possible. I'm sick and tired of being told by people inside Sun that I should wait because LSI is going to produce their driver and its code "real soon now". All of this waiting has just prevented Sun delivering something to customers and the OpenSolaris community which is really needed. I've cc'd ogb-discuss because I would like to get the OGB's input on how we should proceed with the issues that this RFE raises. The thread starts at http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/driver-discuss/2007-December/004775.html James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
