On 7/19/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Compatible?! talk to ATI customes who are at the mercy of whether > > AMD/ATI can be stuffed creatingn compatible kernel drivers for their > > distribution due to inter-distribution incompatibilities. > > .... and yet they still have drivers .... while our singular > OpenSolaris/Solaris platform doesn't.... which makes me believe that > it's not the "multiple distribution" factor which causes that. > I fully agree that the lack of a stable DDI hurts Linux, and that's a > strength we should continue to push with an OpenSolaris platform - but > having multiple distributions with a single compatible DDI and kernel > should not hinder 3rd party hardware vendors from producing drivers. > > I just don't see the multiple distribution argument here. >
The multiple distro and drivers are orthogonal to each other to a good extent (but not completely). Linux has lot more drivers since it has been many years since people have been contributing to it while incase of OpenSolaris the focus has been quite recent (x86 was not even a priority for old versions of Solaris). With some time that ground should be possible to cover. And when that happens a single or a small set of OpenSolaris distros will contribute positively as against a huge number of distros as in the case of Linux. regards Shiv _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
