James Carlson wrote:
I don't believe I have made that assumption. Mostly because I believe the opposite: it's hard to get into ON. And that's not all a bad thing.
Except when the process to get a driver integrated to ON is so byzantine that it drags on for literally *YEARS* in some cases. Combine that with the fact that many of the decent driver interfaces are consolidation private, and you condemn ON to a dearth of driver support. If GLDv3 and the sound interfaces were made stable, a lot of this would go away. As it is today, ON has the major drawback of Linux (volatile interfaces that prevent shipping a binary) without the benefit (ease of integration) from an IHVs perspective. Hell, you can't even ship *SOURCE* and expect a user to build it because the non-stable interface header files are not published outside the HG tree. At least on Linux, you can ship source and have a reasonable expectation that a user can compile your driver. Drew _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
