Is there any word on when this improved device driver will be incorporated into
an "official" build of OpenSolaris Indiana or Solaris Express distributed by
Sun? The URL for the bug id is here:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6807184
The reason I'm asking is because I have a bunch of motherboards with RealTek
NIC's in them and I want to install OpenSolaris on them and run them as servers
and buy support from Sun and have my hardware and software setup be "officially
supported". I'm sure you guys can understand why my bosses would not want to
use 3rd party patches that would take them "off the supported reservation"
because the patches aren't officially blessed by Sun's support team and
distributed as part of the official OpenSolaris Indiana distribution that Sun
sells support for.
On a different note I don't know why Sun doesn't just give Masayuki Murayama
"core device driver contributor" status so that he can freely work on fixing
bugs in NIC drivers without having to run through the whole "sponsorship
obstacle course". If you look at how many Solaris device drivers he has written
over the years, I think he has earned the it.
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