Hi Freeman,
Looks there is still a gap between your evaluation and the fact, so to
think over the motivation of creating "user land NIC driver" may be
helpful. Regardless if you've got enough information of Solaris NIC
driver coverage, I do agree that it's extremely important for Solaris
adoption to support more devices. :-)
I believe OpenSolaris will attract more developers and IHVs to write
drivers for Solaris, and the urgent task to improve NIC driver coverage
is how to integrate those available 3rd party drivers and how to provide
stable framework and documents for developers. But it's unnecessary to
compromise on lack of documents and developers to make a tragic fact
that Solaris will have to follow Linux by "borrowing" Linux drivers.
I want to say that "user mode driver" is really interesting, and it's a
good approach for Audio devices and USB devices, but neither NICs or
storage HBAs, at least nowadays. :-;
Thanks,
Roamer
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88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
SK-9872 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX dual link)
88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
The above devices have already been supported by third-party driver from
SysKonnect. And according to the information from IHV it will be open
source soon.
That's nice. Is it downloadable now ? I tried syskonnect but did not
get it.
The closest one is sk98xx driver, but defaultly SK-9872 is not supported ?
Anyway, 88e8055 is supported.
Thank you
--Freeman
--Lucy
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