Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>> "jcm" == James C McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "t" == Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: .... [snip argument over definitions] ....
> jm> > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/mega_sas > > so, this means there _is_ source, under BSD license? This is the > whole driver or one of those ``shims''? Yes, there is source, and as you note, it is indeed provided under a BSD license. It's the whole driver. I really don't know why you thought that the source didn't exist, let alone not exist in an open form. If you read through that code, you should be able to see that it isn't a shim, either. I don't know why you would think it might be a shim. > I thought the BSD-licensed driver was unbundled mfi available from: > > http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dlg/mfi/ > > and that the bundled mega_sas didn't include source. Is it newly > opened-up, or is that not the complete source, or I misunderstood your > 2008-07-26 post? > > I guess I am not the only one who can't easily tell what's open and > what isn't, or someone would have corrected me sooner. If it's not > fully open, again it's hard to tell. The source at the url you mention is David Gwynne's port of the *BSD mfi driver to Solaris. Can I assume that my "2008-07-26 post" was in fact two messages that were sent to you and cc'd to zfs-discuss: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-July/049605.html and http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-July/049607.html If so, what's the problem? Both drivers are Open. Both drivers are provided under BSD licenses. Both drivers are, to the best of my knowledge, "the complete source". Only one has been integrated into OpenSolaris. And finally, no, you won't get source for the version which is integrated into a Solaris 10 Update. It shouldn't be too different from the version which is in OpenSolaris, but nobody has ever claimed otherwise. Is this the heart of the problem? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
