David S. Miller wrote:
Furthermore, anyone planning to "learn something" from opensolaris and
then incorporate such things into Linux had better well explicitly
implement and properly document a closed room implementation where one
person reads the OpenSolaris code, explains what is happening to
another person, who in turn implements the Linux version.
Otherwise there are grave contamination and copyright infringement
issues possible. One would, in addition to the properly documented
closed room implementation, need to do a patent check on the ideas
being copied over as well.
As a result of all that, looking to OpenSolaris for information to
help out the Linux sparc port is a bad idea.
I assumed this was the case likely. Was more a mild curiosity on what the
feasbility of that was (And whether it's even remotely possible). I've already
peered at OS code out of boredem and in doing so, I noticed they had a
kludge/hack in place for that IDE DMA issue that's always plagued the b100
series, so it piqued my interest.
--Kumba
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands
do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond
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