Stephen Hahn wrote:
* Garrett D'Amore <gdam...@sun.com> [2009-10-28 16:12]:
* containing platform support and drivers not in ON
* drivers might also include userland components (X11 modules?)
Are these only drivers that have been de-supported, or are you
encouraging new driver development as well?
I don't see why new drivers couldn't be done here... eventually such
drivers might transition to ON, but this would be a low barrier way to
get stuff "out there".
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
If there's no SCAs required, then source in this consolidation will
have an extra hurdle (potentially insurmountable) if, after a period
of time, its maintainers want to port it to an SCA-requiring
consolidation. (My suspicion is that a revision sequence without SCAs
covering each step will result in a longer diligence check. Also, you
haven't stipulated the set of software licenses allowed.)
We import stuff from other FOSS sources into ON all the time. It might
be that the combination of CDDL and no SCA is toxic, but other licenses
(e.g. BSD licenses) don't have this problem.
It might be interesting to have the output of this effort distributed
via the contrib/ repository--that work has a similar "at own risk"
aspect, and has a submission and acceptance policy already in place.
(So the Maintained Open Legacy Drivers (?) consolidation could focus
on code, building, and testing.)
That's a good idea. Although at present I have been unable to get any
information from the IPS folks about what is required to deliver a
*driver* via IPS. (Specifically there is the question of handling the
postinstall requirements for drivers -- you have to run add_drv.)
We also need to make a consolidation available in tradition form so
other folks can build LiveCDs of their own, or other distros can import
it. (Imagine a legacy version of milax, for example.)
- Garrett
Cheers
Stephen
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