Yunsong (Roamer) Lu wrote:
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 agree this point. And I don't think "borrowing" Linux drivers is
easier than integrating all available 3rd party NIC drivers into Solaris.
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. :-;
Yes, for NIC drivers , I think performance is quite important, even a
desktop user also need good performance.
Furthermore, if this kind of "borrowing" need OpenSolaris developers
look into Linux's driver code instead of simply rebuilding code, it's
absolutely unacceptable.
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