On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, David Gwynne wrote: > I read this as "Sun is a very active contributer to OpenSolaris". > ... > However, isn't that activity separate to the OpenSolaris community > choosing to integrate something else if they want to?
That's not exactly what I was trying to point out. I would say that Sun is encouraging their partners to open source their work also, and many of them have been very postive to that. I do now know if the LSI work is being open sourced or not though. I will try to find out. > There's a second generation of the megaraid sas boards that mfi > doesn't support, but the changes required to support it are trivial. > If someone wants to supply me with hardware I bet I could fix mfi in a > few hours. Remember, to complicate this issue, Dell used to supply a RAID driver for a few of the lsi cards (lsi purchased the company I believe), and I'm not sure how that comes into play or if it does. I suspect this could have something to do with the time it's taking with legal, and must involve dual licensing. I have used that software in the past, and it was without management of any type, it ran fine on S9/S10, but you had to boot their management software to change anything in regard to the storage. I do believe there is management software of some type with the LSI work that is going on with Sun, but I will need to follow up after the break and I've had a chance to talk to my manager. If it does include management software, I would think it would be near impossible to get the mfi putback. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
