You do argue a lot around here, was going to ignore it, but here goes.
alhopper, you complain about installing a 3ware card with a binary only driver. Note (a) 3ware used to provide source for their cards under Linux; they sold a lot because of this. Disappointed they no longer do. (b) They dont provide a Solaris driver at all. Rather than moaning do something about that. (c) Most Linux users in a professional situation consider anything without an open source driver as not only unsupported but unsupportable - there is no Linux vendor who will give you commercial support if you use such a driver, as none of the vendors have the source code. Even if you believe that the driver is not causing the problem it doesnt help, as it runs in kernel space. (d) This is a very different situation from Sun (and it is something Sun could leverage in the case of hardware that is likely never to have open source drivers eg 3D graphics; as Sun can get access to source code and has a history of working with closed source drivers). (e) So dont complain about Linux not supporting some bit of hardware that doesnt have an open source driver - buy some other hardware. (f) Linux has very different priorities to Solaris. And different uses. And a different development process. Stop complaining; try and understand the different cultures, and look outside of your little field. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
