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. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
