-----Original Message----- From: James Carlson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:56 AM To: Herman, George Cc: Ostrovsky, Boris; ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: RE: [ogb-discuss] Creating a place for AMD-related work
Herman, George writes: > It appears that we're pretty much in agreement, with the exception of > having and AMD community. Point taken... how about if we propose an > x86/64 community instead? What sorts of projects would an x86/64 community endorse? How would it direct them? I can understand a platform community, because the projects it would endorse are those that allow one to run OpenSolaris on a particular platform. That would include common drivers (VM, memory management, console access, and booting, for a few examples) and kernel portability issues. Other things not related to the platform itself -- such as networking and video drivers -- would be done elsewhere. The lines seem fairly clear to me. Would an x86/64 community also endorse application level projects? What do you mean by application level projects? > I still think we all need to encourage projects around > technologies/value-add rather than around platforms. Perhaps I'm being dense, but I think that writing code that makes OpenSolaris run on a platform does sound like a valid technology area. In the end, it's really the same; it's just that the focus during development that is different. I'm suggesting that jointly focus on a particular technology area of Solaris... and not so much on the platform. > Do you see any > issue with proposing a IOMMU project outside of a particular platform's > project space? No, particularly if there are common problems to be solved. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
