On 07/28/2015 14:23, Nikola M wrote:
Yes. OI /dev builds its own clone of illumos-gate, which contains
several patches, most notable vmxnet3s driver, some fixes to allow
smoother updates from OpenSolaris, some SMF fixes and branding
changes. I think several of them can be easily upstreamed, several
are not so important
I am thinking, wouldn't Hipster need such thing, too?
So that some things that are not part of illumos, like LX zones, new
tehnologies from Joyent and elsewhere, that haven't reach mainline
illumos yet, but ae used on other distros,
be included in Hipster to be able to be used and tested?
That would require having clone of illumos-gate for Hipster, too,
partially because there could be the day when OI would need to support
it's releases and it can't be done without it's own maintained illumos
clone.
I'd say no. Because you either work on your illumos-gate clone and
support it (like Igor, for example, do), either you end up with
out-of-date one (like OI /dev). But if you work on illumos-gate, you
don't have time to work on userland. I don't have skills or desire to do
anything sufficient with illumos-gate, so I'd better cooperate with
upstream team.
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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