Sooner or later, if you want drivers, you or someone else will have to roll up
their sleeves and dig into the DDI/DDK documentation on docs.sun.com. There is
no way around that, no matter which elaborate schemes (user-mode, la la la) one
comes up with.
How did Linux get so many drivers? Vendors sure weren't eager to release the
specs! So that means *somebody* had to roll up their sleeves, reverse-engineer
how the device worked, then figure out how to write a driver that will
interface with the Linux kernel and with the device.
Why are we actively trying *not to* do the exact same thing on Solaris?????
If anything, writing drivers for Solaris should be far easier than for Linux!
The dilemma I think is, when I roll up sleeves, I have no spec.
I believe if there are enough developers rolling up their sleeves,
some of them may have channel to get spec. Do you see any sign of
such kind of things ?
Thank you
--Freeman
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