Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Garrett D'Amore writes: > > > AFAICT, its about 10 lines of code to add to gld_cap_ack() and one > > > #define GLD_CAP_LSO to add to gld.h to allow a gldv2 driver to > > > advertise LSO.. > > > > > > > If that's the case, then I suggest you file an RFE, request-sponsor, and > > submit the code. You don't have to wait for someone at Sun to figure > > this out. > > To an outsider, the OpenSolaris process seems quite Byzantine. I > don't even know where to start.... I'd have to figure out how to > build and install a kernel from source in order to test it, something > I've never done. And I'd have to figure out the OpenSolaris processs. > Both of which seem incredibly daunting. I've been meaning to figure > these things out, but I've I haven't had a few days to spend on it. > > No offense, but if this was FreeBSD or Linux, I'd have already had a > patch integrated.. Or, more accurately, I wouldn't care because my > *driver* would be integreted, and not treated as a 2nd class citizen. > I'm not saying the OpenSolaris community is neccessarily harder to > deal with than the Linux or BSD communities. Both of them took some > time to get the hang of. I just haven't had time to do that for > Solaris yet. >
Andrew, I've offered to help you integrate your driver. Get your code and test hardware to me, and I'll work with you on it. Really. (Especially if your hardware is 10GBaseT. Note that CX4 is really hard for me, because I have no CX4 peers. Fiber is also hard for me to work with, but if that's all you have, I'll try to help you out. CX4 is mostly a non-starter though, unless you have some other kind of equipment I can use as a test peer....) As for the pain in figuring out kernel sources, well, yeah, its a PITA to figure out, but well worth the effort once you've done so. There are a lot of docs describing the process. Sorry its so byzantine, but to a new comer, so is the BSD or Linux stuff. (I recall that the trouble to figure out how to do a full NetBSD build was not unlike the trouble I went thru figuring out how to do a full ON build.) -- Garrett _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
