Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm wondering, what thought has anyone seriously given to the notion of >> "shrinking" ON? > > +1 > > One of the things to spin off can be device drivers (I believe that > idea was discussed in the past already). It could serve number of > purposes - shrinking ON, keeping all the drivers DDI clean (since they > will be outside of the ON) and making it easy for different > distributions to update drivers.
Where would they spin off into ? Not being in ON doesn't automatically make the DDI clean they can still use non DDI functions - it just means they might break when someone changes one of them (where as when in ON they would be more likely to get fixed). All device drivers ? Just some of them ? Why device drivers ? What is so special about them ? How is ON holding them back from development ? Or how are they holding ON back ? BTW we should probably be having this discussion on on-discuss@ instead. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
