On 3/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 3/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Correct; I think that Sun will need to change that attitude and define >> a process for itself in which it limits the bits of OpenSolaris it >> ships as part of its distribution *or* finds a way to "do the community >> thing" and ship the drivers as "community supported only". >> > >Perhaps the problem is that all drivers are in ON? They are not, really (I seem to remember we had quite a few non-ON drivers such as fiberchannel) >[For myself, I am currently restricted to ON by Nemo still being >consolidation private; roll on getting a published interface] What other consolidation would you prefer? Or would you like some OpenSolaris things to exist outside consolidations? The whole consolidation thing is, of course, largely artificial.
While I was at Sun I wondered whether there should be a consolidation for open source drivers (a good while before Solaris itself was open source). The consolidation would have very lightweight integration rules (since the driver source would already be freely available). It would just serve as a means for Sun to collectively build and ship binaries for most freely available Solaris drivers (to improve the out-of-the-box Solaris experience). Now I wonder whether something similar is needed to ease open sourcing of new drivers. There's nothing, of course, to stop anyone writing an open source Solaris driver an posting the source on their own webspace under whatever license they desire, but it would be much more convenient for the community as a whole if Opensolaris.org provided a repository (which I guess would probably best be modelled as a new consolidation) for driver source which did not require the overhead that ON imposes i.e. PSARC, ON C-team, PIT etc. The alternative to a new consolidation would be if ON was willing to lighten up some of its integration procedures and Sun get more selective about what it actually builds into its own distro. The current ON processes are just wrong for open source. Paul -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
