Ostrovsky, Boris wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'd like to ask a question.
>
> We have a number of people at Sun/Solaris and AMD working on various
> AMD-related enhancements to Solaris. There are also a few projects under
> consideration, in particular a project to support AMD's IOMMU, which we
> are already starting to work on.
>
> We would like to provide some sort of structure to these efforts and
> OpenSolaris looks like a good venue for that.
>
> We have been discussing a number of options:
> - Treat each project as a separate effort and simply find an
> appropriate community to sponsor it
> - Create an AMD community which would (co)-sponsor various
> projects.
> - Create an umbrella AMD project and then have sub-projects
> under it.
>
> The first option appears to be the easiest but, at least from my
> perspective, it does not provide any "unifying" structure to AMD-related
> work. For example, after a new CPU is introduced, it may be difficult to
> find out whether a particular feature is addressed -- you'd have to
> first figure out which community/project would be the most relevant, and
> that's often not easy. Besides, certain features may not be worth a
> whole project, but people might still be interested in its status (or
> have a place to discuss it).
>
> We are leaning toward the second or third option, although it is not
> clear whether the third option is even a possibility under the current
> rules.
>
> I would be interested to hear from people on this alias what should be
> the preferred route to take.
>
Hi Boris,
Awesome - I'm really glad to see AMD's increased open source
participation lately. This is great news. I think either option 1 or 3
are fine. The precedent set by Intel is to do #3 (see:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/) which would allow you
to create as many lists and sub-projects/repositories under one "Make
Solaris kick butt on AMD" project. I think this would probably give you
the freedom and least amount of hassle in getting lists/repos setup to
move forward.
cheers,
steve
