Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> So that's a bit more discussion than I expected. For those who want to
>> allow closed cases to integrate into OpenSolaris code, please offer a
>> proposed policy that explains how this could be handled, and why it
>> wouldn't
>> just become carte blanche for anyone to integrate without ARC review?
>
> How does this work in XOrg? I assume Intel will only put back driver support
> on
> their chips once they're released? I would expect a similar thing for Sun and
> any other vendor who produces hardware - maybe some allowances need to be made
> for that, given how the hardware industry is currently shaped?
Xorg doesn't have ARC reviews, so it doesn't really match.
Intel actually puts back driver support for their chips once announced, but
before they're shipping in quantity, to allow vendors time to integrate the
drivers into their releases before the users start complaining they've bought
new hardware that doesn't work.
But that's only specific hardware names/chip ids and register sets and the
like being protected, which is mostly architecturally uninteresting. (We
certainly don't bother doing ARC reviews at Sun for bringing in driver updates
like "Add i965 chipset ids and register layouts to the i810 driver" - that's
self-review level material.)
For the changes they've proposed that change the architecture of the X server,
like the output device hotplugging, that was fully open discussion well before
committing code, since it had nothing to do with any specific chipset that they
had to keep secret.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
