Quoting "James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > of use from a simple FC-AL setup. And I do. So just for people like me: > Don't > > simply drop support for these devices, but throw the sources out there! > > Sun doesn't have the source; we licensed the driver from QLogic... and > they've > EOLd it so we pretty much had to as well. > > /action points fingers @ QLogic
Does this mean the package which Sun distributes contains the binary solaris driver as built by QLogic, or does it mean that Sun built the driver from source under license of QLogic which now you're not allowed to anymore because QLogic EOL'ed the product? Not that it makes any difference, but at least in the latter case we might be able to convince QLogic to allow Sun to keep redistributing binary packages with the driver in question. > You could try porting a version from another opensource unixlike OS. I'm > sure there are people around who'd be willing to help in one way or another. I could try, but progress would most likely be pretty close to zero. I'm not much of a code monkey :) But it's not an impossible task for someone capable of porting device drivers from one kernel to the other though. The code is out there in the linux kernel, for instance. But I guess most resources will go into porting relatively more high profile desktop hardware like wireless drivers to keep the unwashed linux hordes happy. On a side note, does anyone know which drivers would be the easiest to port over? The ones you find in BSD kernels or the ones in linux kernels? Or does the Solaris kernel not resemble any of the two to make any statement about it? Regards, Ferdinand O. Tempel ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
