Please recall that the goal of the Oct release was to make a contribution of source to the community with the stated goal of enough functional code to allow "anyone" with an ODW target and an x86 solaris host the ability to conduct hands-on develop. In the context of an overall kernel port this was pretty preliminary stuff really, bootloader, inetboot and talking to the prom interface, printf() etc. It was all open, generally current with ON at that time, no restrictions on development, straighforward to follow and a major functional step forward. The tasks going forward were outlined in the Polaris taskmap.
It was perhaps understandable that no technical questions arose with any of the source at that time. This low level work is a grind and typically only interesting to one with that direct experience. Without the expressed interest in any of the pending tasks the grind just continued. FF to now. The project pages are being updated and source is being pushed out in increments. Timing on these is not concrete as (contrary to popular opinion) the team has numerous other responsibilities, the community aspect here is just one part. So as with any source base digging into the code is simply a requirement. We would like nothing better then to discuss lines of source or anything else related to technical topics with the project, it simply is more enjoyable and interesting. Tom This message posted from opensolaris.org
