Ferdinand O. Tempel wrote:
Quoting "James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
...
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.
We re-distributed binaries which QLogic supplied us under license, your
first option.
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.
It's not just the unwashed linux hordes that want wifi. There are plenty of
Sun's engineers working on Solaris who want it too, let alone customers!
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?
I've really got no idea. My guess is that since Solaris has a direct descent
tree from BSD then *BSD drivers might be a bit easier to port. I have no
experience of this though, so ymmv ianal hand etc etc.
regards,
James C. McPherson
--
SAN Engineering Product Development
Data Management Group
Sun Microsystems
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