Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Eric Sultan wrote:
>
>> I'd need to consult with someone that knows release engineering better
>> than I, but I'd think that the rfb driver should be made mutually
>> exclusive of the nfb and pfb drivers. I'm not familiar enough with
>> packaging and installation issues to know how to achieve this.
>>
>
> I don't think there is a way to do this other than choose one to not
> include with Solaris.
>
Yes. And it creates nightmares on upgrade. If at all possible, I
*highly* recommend renaming the driver to the legacy names, so it
appears as a "drop in" replacement.
>
>> Both drivers can exist in the system without competing with each other.
>> The first one found in the /etc/driver_aliases file is the one that
>> would be used, but this doesn't seem to provide a useful mechanism for
>> binding the driver to the device.
>>
>
> So how would users choose which to run? Why does a different kernel driver
> even need to be provided - can't the Xorg ddx module work with the old ones?
>
Good point -- I look forward to Eric's reply.
As an aside, I'm disappointed about the open source, but hopefully we'll
at least get binary redistribution rights? I'm also not sure what the
etiquette of submitting an open ARC case for a closed source bit of
software is.
-- Garrett
