Yunsong (Roamer) Lu writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > Warning: those are all drivers integrated in ON.  Unlike unbundled
> > drivers, they may use ON private interfaces.  Those aren't "secrets,"
> > but rather are interfaces that change quickly, lack documentation, and
> > that are inappropriate for use outside of ON.
> Yes, the GLDv3 interfaces used by those integrated NIC drivers are not 
> stable yet. But the usages of DMA buffers, timeout/cyclic, and DDI 
> interfaces are common and stable enough. So I believe these drivers 
> could be good references even for those unbundled drivers.
> 
> Any idea about providing better documents for this? Looks those external 
> developers have not got enough document support all along. :-(

Yes -- someone needs to make those interfaces stable and documented.
It's something that I think anyone could do.  So far, the authors of
the interfaces haven't done it, but as long as they're part of
OpenSolaris, they belong to the community.

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