About XHCI, I have never heard of a USB 3.0 input device that cannot operate in USB 2.0 or lower compatibility mode. Can you share this hardware that everyone has that is breaking Solaris? Even USB 3.0 onboard (I haven't checked recently, so this might not be accurate anymore) will usually allow you to run USB3 devices in a USB2 compatibility mode that will allow existing AHCI drivers to interface with these devices.
I would be interested in working on compiling MATE and Xfce for Solaris, if it isn't available already. Let me know. I plan on building a new desktop rig in the next 6 months that will have Solaris running in some kind of virtualization environment, and OpenIndiana is my primary interest. Anyone need that software contributed? I'd need some information on how to set up a build environment for IPS inclusion, though, most of the HOWTOs I've seen are rather confusing. Thanks for letting me chip in. -Alex Smith -Kent, Washington USA " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Joshua M. Clulow <j...@sysmgr.org> wrote: > On 22 August 2016 at 00:36, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > > Again, many of such my needs are well served by VNC on Solarish systems > - but even that needs much of the GUI stack and libs. > > > > Home server uses are more of a both server and desktop usecases, > naturally (especially if you play videos to the big TV - where video > acceleration is useful), or just want to use a keyboard to manage the box > (usb3 nag, although supporting the videocard also helps). > > Support for XHCI, at least, is being worked on. > > > So I wouldn't say this is an utterly useless direction, far from that. > > The thing that bugs me about these discussions is it always feels like > endless, essentially academic rhetoric. People on one side are saying > "it's not worth doing", because they don't personally need illumos to > run on the desktop. People on the other side are saying "we cannot > live without it", but are then generally not doing the actual work to > make it happen. > > You don't need to convince illumos discuss@ of the viability, or > non-viability, of illumos on the desktop. What I think, or what > Garrett thinks, or what _anybody_ thinks is almost certainly not > relevant once somebody (or ideally several somebodies) with some skin > in the game start working on the problem. > > If you need to port graphics bits from FreeBSD, or OpenBSD, or from > somewhere else, just start working on it! Kernel development isn't a > dark art, or a secret club with handshakes and lodge hats; it requires > tenacity, and dogged persistence, but it's all just software. > > If you want it, work on it! Or find someone who will. Many of us > will happily answer questions once you have them, and offer help with > the tools and the process where we can. > > Cheers. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > UNIX Admin/Developer > http://blog.sysmgr.org > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
