"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Great. Not much different from Linux for binary
> > drivers. Now if you can tell me the same for those
> > that come with Open Solaris no matter what release you
> > are running...
>
> In this case, you probably can't get the si3124 package working on
> older versions of Solaris. From what I understand, drivers that worked
> on b16 of Solaris Express should still work on b61. This means that

It depends on what features it is using.

If a driver depends on  fine grained privileges, then you cannot run is in
Solaris 9. A 32 bit x86 driver compiled in 1993 for Solaris-2.3 will work
in the latest Nevada build if you run a 32 bit kernel.


Jörg

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