[request-sponsor] Re: request to add Intel D865PERL onboard LAN support

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Shapiro
hi dan, it's a device-subsystem-id. ... Guys, glad you're working this out: this sounds like a great enhancement. I'd like to ask one favor regarding e-mail etiquette though ... can we limit the e-mail traffic and cc's to request-sponsor at opensolaris to the act of obtaining a sponsor and

[request-sponsor] Sponsorship application microfaq

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Shapiro
Mike et al., Well, perhaps nanofaq, cast into prose. From reading the web and lists I've seen, I'm still a little unclear on the actual modus operandi for us ex- officio engineers. I gather that the community buglist is world-readable--all bugs, save perhaps in the still-encumbered

[request-sponsor] 6335559, 6335549, 6335547: fixes for various smbios / prtdiag issues

2005-10-17 Thread Michael Shapiro
6335559: smbios utility reports bogus cache size information 6335549: prtdiag: can't get smbios tables on toshiba tecra s1 laptop 6335547: smbios intermediate checksum computation is broken, rejects valid smbios tables See each bug's work around section for a suggested fix, with the

[request-sponsor] please read: sponsor proposal

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Shapiro
Nope - you're not the first, so this is my error. The original concept of sponsoring had two tiers: CRT advocates and sponsors. Both tiers require some amount of experience working in and putting back to the O/N source hierarchy. Both can take a request and run with it. Now there is a