> 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: > > > ttp://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6807184
Although I'm now working on the bugs in rge with Sun responsible engineers, I cannot say when and/or what will be integrated into opensolaris, sorry. I just integrated the fixes I found in this discussion, and started to evaluate new rge. It will take 2-3 months to be integrated in opensolaris build, I think. > 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". Now I'm searching rtl8168/8111 variants I have not tested. Their mac_ver are: 1008730112 RTL8168C/8111C rev.B 1010827264 RTL8168C/8111C rev.C 1006632960 RTL8168C/8111C unknown 1016070144 RTL8168CP/8111CP rev.B 1018167296 RTL8168CP/8111CP rev.C 1015021568 RTL8168CP/8111CP 672137216 RTL8168D/8111D 674234368 RTL8168D/8111D rev.C 671088640 RTL8168D/8111D unknown 679477248 RTL8168DP/8111DP If you have one of the chipset above, please help me to test new rge. You can know the mac_ver by "kstat -m rge | grep mac_ver". -masa > 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 it. > > Message was edited by: system5 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
