Hi Dave,
Thanks for the advice, I will remove indiana from the sponsor list in
the proposal.
Hardware Driver Detection Tool(HDD) is different from
SDDTool(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ddtool/). HDD is designed
for opensolaris, it runs on opensolaris and report the driver
availability and driver status(properly attached or not) on the running
system. And alos it has the function to install drivers from IPS.
SDDTool is a cross-platform device driver detection tool. It checks the
device driver availability through a driver database, not on the
running system.
The following is the comparison. HDD vs. SDDTool
Functionality
Hardware driver detection tool SDDtool
Programming Language
Python+C+shell
Java+C
Platform
Designed for opensolaris
Solaris,Windows,Linux and Mac OS
Driver detection
Check driver availability on the running system. And report whether
driver works properly. Display detailed device and driver information
Check driver availablity for certain version of Solaris through a
driver database
Check driver packages availability via IPS Yes
No
Load driver dynamically from IPS
Yes
No
Report system configuration back to HCL
Yes
Yes
Regards,
Bill
Dave Miner ???:
Yan Xue Yang wrote:
Proposal for Hardware Driver Detection Project (HDD)
Purpose: The primary purpose of this tool is designed for opensolaris.
It has the following functions:
1. Display device information and device driver information on the
system.
2. Check the device driver availability on IPS.
3. Dynamically add device driver from IPS.
4. Report system configurations to the OpenSolaris community.
List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
Indiana
Device Driver
Shawn or someone already pointed out the procedural issue that Indiana
is a project, not a community, and thus can't sponsor another project,
but this project seems identical to a project that already exists:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ddtool/
which is sponsored by both Device Drivers and Installation & Packaging.
Dave
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