For example, if I bought a bunch of hardware pieces from Frys or Circuit City or some yum-cha shop and got it up and running with [Open]Solaris by sacrificing 3 virgins whilst doing a tribal dance, I don't see this as being of relevance to device-driver or other forums but at the same time, potentially valuable to other [Open]Solaris users (so they know they need to find 3 virgins, if nothing else!)
Don't get me wrong - virgins are great, but why wouldn't this be relevant to device drivers? As far as I'm concerned, Hardware := CPU + RAM + local bus wired to a collection of devices. Setting aside CPU and RAM, we're left with a local-to-peripheral bus bridge driver and drivers for each particular device. Even BIOS interaction happens through a driver. Can you give an example wherein a solution for running Solaris on a certain x86 motherboard wouldn't eventually lead to a driver problem?
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