On Friday 02 June 2006 12:25 pm, Mike Ditto wrote: > Andrew Gallatin wrote On 06/02/06 11:27,: > > The MXGE project is an effort to port a proprietary, vendor supplied > > Solaris GLDv2 ethernet driver for the Myricom 10GE NIC to an > > OpenSolaris GLDv3 driver. > > I second this proposal. > > It will be great to have a good example driver from outside Sun using > the latest driver techniques for controlling sophisticated NIC hardware. > It will also be nice to have an(other) example of a hardware vendor > using open-source drivers instead of proprietary ones, and getting the > benefits of review/contribution from the whole networking/driver > community.
I agree. BTW, cool stuff with that Crossbow stuff you folks did which you were showing today, Andrew might be interested to learn about that if he isn't aware of it, and how it might be able to benifit them on a 10GigE adapter. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
