I'm filing this on my own behalf, seeking minor binding.
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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
EOF of legacy bus mice
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Garrett D'Amore
1.3 Date of This Document:
02 June, 2009
4. Technical Description
EOF of msm and logi bus mouse modules
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ON currently has drivers that reputedly support Microsoft Bus Mouse
(msm) and Logitech Bus Mouse (logi) devices.
However, as far as anyone knows, nobody has used either of these devices
with Solaris in quite a long time. The bus mice used add-in ISA cards that
are unlikely to be usable on any system capable of running Nevada.
Additionally, nobody within Sun seems to have hardware to test these devices
anymore. Even the Xorg drivers for these devices are reportedly untested --
its likely that the last time either of these devices was tested was with Xsun
which we no longer deliver on x86 platforms.
Finally, all modern systems support either PS/2 or USB mice. (Some fairly
ancient systems use serial mice or type 5 style sun mice, but EOF'ing of either
of those is probably a good topic for another case. This one just deals with
logi and msm.)
We'd like to EOF these drivers from Solaris Nevada. We don't believe this
will have any negative impact on anyone -- the only impact should be the
positive result of removing the driver binaries, man pages, and associated
source code.
We have no desire to release note this, because we simply don't believe that
there is anyone who would even notice the removal. However, if either the
ARC or the other committees (CTeam, Product team) requests we will provide
a release note and advance notification in a Solaris 10 update release.
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
ON
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
