On 09-11-2024 11:52, Till Wegmüller wrote:
HiIn General if you want to develop drivers for your HBA's we are happy that you do, but could you please do so on a modern OS basis? I don't know why one of your customers wants to still use the Old OpenIndiana version or why you still want to but in general that sounds like a really bad idea. We do not provide security updates for such older versions and are definetly not paid to do so. So you are on your own there and are essentially ontop of your own fork. You can do that but we do not provide gratis support for backporting. If you want to make drivers for illumos to sell your HBA's please use the current upstream version or develop together with illumos folks inside of illumos-gate.
In principle, it's ok to cutoff the supported OI versions at some point, but I today I found that this cutoff is made far too early: Cannot install driver mlxcx: pkg install: No matching version of driver/network/mlxcx can be installed: Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/driver/network/[email protected] to pkg://openindiana.org/driver/network/[email protected]Reason: This version is excluded by installed incorporation consolidation/osnet/[email protected]
And that's on a system that's not even 4 month behind head. At least, the supported versions should be kept reaching back to the last ISO release, that would be about 6-7 month. -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.of Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology https://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026
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