Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>>> All of these things are easily overcome. It will take me about a day to
>>> make a sparcv9-compatible atheros, and to update both sparc and x86
>>> ports to the latest released HAL (0.9.17.2). I've worked with Sam
>>> Leffler already on the NetBSD port of the Atheros driver, btw.
>>>
>> That would be fantastic. I can help you with putting these new drivers
>> up on OpenSolaris.org. After it gets tested enough, I can be your sponsor
>> for getting these updates integreated in Solaris.
>>
>
>
> Excellent; is there any particular reason why the (Open)Solaris atheros
> driver is behind the one available in the laptop community?
>
> Casper
>
Actually, I notice that inetmenu, wificonfig, pcwl, and pcan (at least)
are all newer in the community than what is in (Open)Solaris.
It would be nice if we (the community) had a way to follow progress of
some of these things thru integration.
-- Garrett
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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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