For some more cold water (not that it should stop anyone that believes in the idea enough to do the work!), remember UDI? Doesn't seem to have amounted to much - I haven't heard a thing about it in 3 or 4 years, nor do I see evidence that it resulted in a bunch of compliant drivers being produced. (UDI = Uniform Driver Interface, still in the kernel though) There's a couple of sites, but they seem to be rather inactive: projectudi.sourceforge.net www.project.udi.org
I suspect that with the climate created by all the SCO FUD, the utter lack of interest by the Linux crowd (who probably thought that if they adopted it, they'd end up giving more than they got), probably killed it. I think a collection of notes by people who have ported e.g. *BSD drivers to Solaris would probably do as much good as anything, although perhaps if enough Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and other open-source OS users/coders/supporters made a point of choosing hardware for which full specs (sufficient to write drivers) were available, that might result in an improvement in the common problem. Perhaps a new and neutral site, that listed devices and chipsets that had (or did not have) sufficiently open specs, with an underlying database of product vs chipset (because it has to be easy for a potential buyer to determine what to avoid) might apply a little pressure... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
