Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
3) Sun would have no official support for this new consolidation.
* no support in bugster for this stuff
* not part of any official Sun distro
* caveat emptor
Does this mean that it could not be part of Sun's OpenSolaris
distro?
This may be naive, but it seems like at least part of the utility
of the community supported hardware will be drivers for
devices that {Open,}Solaris does not support, and which
are need for installation (disk controllers, USB controllers,
NICs). Wouldn't you'd want to have this included in OpenSolaris,
with a checkbox to enable community supported hardware (and
a big loud "abandon all hope" sort of disclaimer) in
the installer. Heck, you'd even potentially want a boot
option in case the kernel needs community supported hardware
to find the optical drive, or run the keyboard/mouse.
I think we could provide some kind of ITU facility for such use, but
basically, these would not be part of the actual OpenSolaris distro.
The barrier to entry to getting into the OpenSolaris distro (or at least
the LiveCD) is sufficiently high as to exclude many of the things that
we are talking about wanting to support via this consolidation.
My primary intention here is to allow other consolidations to make
choices that are *different* than what the OpenSolaris distribution does.
At the end of the day, the OpenSolaris binary distribution is a Sun
product, not a community product, and Sun business interests (the same
interests which would exclude these things from ON in the first place)
are likely to drive decisions for it.
Now, this stuff could go via an IPS repository, /contrib or some other
new one just for this purpose, and OpenSolaris users could pick up stuff
that way, I suppose. But it would still be separate.
- Garrett
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