On 25/12/2007, at 6:17 PM, Alan DuBoff wrote: > 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.
Yes, Sun is very active, which is great, but not relevant here. Sun and OpenSolaris are supposed to be separate and I'm trying to deal with the OpenSolaris community. There is no project in OpenSolaris relating to LSI or the megasas driver. If you think there should be then submit a proposal like I did for the integration of the mfi driver. >> 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. Whether mfi is integrated is up to the OpenSolaris community. From what I can tell they are rather positive about mfi but the apparent confusion about Sun's role in OpenSolaris, and this ongoing negotiation they're doing with LSI seems to keep anything from happening when it really shouldn't matter. dlg _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
