> It looks like Clearview is for the ordinary, those legacy, GLDV2 > drivers to support VLAN. But, is Clearview just an intermediate step > towards GLDV3 without some limitation? Will Clearview be replaced by > GLDV3 eventually?
Nemo Unification is just one part of Clearview -- but yes, that part is intended as a transition mechanism. All new Sun drivers are being written to GLDv3, and once Clearview (not strictly the Nemo Unification part), Crossbow, and a couple other ongoing projects wrap up we will be able to finalize the GLDv3 driver APIs and publish those for external use too -- at which point we will encourage others to switch to GLDv3 (e.g., for Solaris 11). It's unclear what will happen with GLDv3 on Solaris 10 at this point. > I recently ordered some SunFire servers and these servers run Solaris > 10 10/06! I am wondering when OpenSolaris will be installed instead? If > SUN will soon stop shipping Solaris 10 servers, then, there is no need > to improve my GLDv2 driver. Otherwise, I might have to provide VLAN > support for GLDV2 driver running on Solaris 10. For Solaris 10, external drivers will need to use GLDv2 for now. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
