Joerg Schilling wrote:
Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO, adding new frameworks to the OS in order to work around legal
issues is a fundamentally flawed motivation and can lead to duplication,
added maintenance burden, confusion among developers and other problems.
This is indeed an important argument.
But don't forget the userland.... If OpenSolaris just adds all available
software whithout thinking about possible confisions it would create a problem.
Jörg
Yes that is a real argument which I agree totally.
Here is my point of view. If I have a piece of hardware that does not
work, I will try to find one driver on Internet.
If it works, I am happy, without bothering about how it is implemented.
On the other hand, if I just
can not find a driver, that annoy me very much.
Solaris already have good driver framework, and a lot of documents. But
still is lack of drivers. How could
we cultivate an active community for writing drives without enabling
them to use it ? In the long run, it would
be idea if hardware vendors will provide drivers, or the community will
do it. But how could we achieve that
without enabling users to use the hardware ? I think we are here
arguing about solution for that.
Architecturally, umd is far from perfect. When the community becoming
huge, some may prefer to create
native kernel drivers. I will be glad to see that. From this point of
view, the bottom line for umd is, it could
be a short term solution to reach our long term goal.
Thank you
--Freeman
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