On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, David Gwynne wrote: > On 19/12/2007, at 4:29 PM, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: >> >>> "political" considerations, and I think Sun's business concerns >>> and the >>> concerns of the open source community may not be well aligned on >>> this issue.
Just a nit, but I don't believe that Artem stated that, the quote was from Garrett. > That is correct, but as it has been explained before these are > (supposed to be) independent concerns. Timing is a part of the problem. Sun has had a relationship with LSI for quite a long time, even before OpenSolaris existed. > To me this sounds like it is formalising the "process" that has been > in place since I first submitted the RFE to have mfi integrated into > OpenSolaris, ie, wait for Sun and/or LSI. My understanding was that > decisions affecting OpenSolaris was to be made by the OpenSolaris > community separately to the decisions Sun make regarding Solaris. > > Why is Sun involved here? Because they MAY choose to use mfi in > Solaris too? > > Please clue me in if I'm missing something here. Well, Sun basically open sourced thier system about 2 1/2 years ago, but there are many vendors that Sun has been working with for far longer than that. The relationship and work with LSI has been underway for some time. To ask why Sun is involved is a sign that you might not know about work they've been doing with LSI, and I'm not faulting you for that, just trying to point out why this exists today. I honestly do not know what has taken so long for the LSI driver, although I do know that legal issues have plagued both sides, and it's easy for legal beagles to chew up time by pushing revised documents back and forth. If there is something specific you would like to know, I can try to get some information for you, it is my manager that is responsible for the LSI relationship. I really think it is more complicated than appears on the surface, in that the work that LSI is doing will support more devices, at least that is my understanding. Given a different set of circumstances, it would be easier to get your mfi driver putback, but given the current circumstances, I don't see that happening. This might not help you, but I can try to find out more about the device support and/or what is better about megasas. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
