Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-28 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 25, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:48:52AM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Why does it have to be 100% compatible? That is a serious question. What breaks so bad that not having access to the source is considered a viable solution? 100% compatibil

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/27/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > We have either _no_ ksh in OpenSolaris or we have ksh93. > > > > or we have pdksh, which is a lot closer to ksh88. > > The last time

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > We have either _no_ ksh in OpenSolaris or we have ksh93. > > or we have pdksh, which is a lot closer to ksh88. The last time I did read something about pdksh, people were disappointed about the c

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > Any discussion where people try to enforce a way that is not possible > > with freely distributable systems is a useless discussion... > > Decisions pertaining to the development of the comm

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have two problems (or potential problems) with your assertions... > > > > > > Funny thing is (and the crux of this misunderstanding): there isn't > > > any such thing as "OpenSolaris" per se in the context in which Roy used > > > above. There is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: > We have either _no_ ksh in OpenSolaris or we have ksh93. or we have pdksh, which is a lot closer to ksh88. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > [ ... ] > > Any discussion where people try to enforce a way that is not possible > with freely distributable systems is a useless discussion... Decisions pertaining to the development of the commercial derivative (e.g. Sun Solaris) of open-source soft

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Roy> Solaris cannot be placed in a position where it determines the > > > contents > > > Roy> of OpenSolaris. That is a dead-end exercise of tossing code over the > > > Roy> wall whenever Sun sees fit,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roy> Solaris cannot be placed in a position where it determines the contents > > Roy> of OpenSolaris. That is a dead-end exercise of tossing code over the > > Roy> wall whenever Sun sees fit, which is the antithesis of what we are > > Roy> trying to d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:48:52AM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > > Why does it have to be 100% compatible? That is a serious question. > > What breaks so bad that not having access to the source is considered > > a viable solution? > > 100% comp

Re: AT&T OpenSources: WAS Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Steve Logue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > How about some data to discuss regarding ksh93 > differences? > > Attached is the latest COMPATIBILITY file from the > ksh93 sources. Please Peruse: > > http://www.kornshell.com/ > http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ > > PS. Note that pax i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first is that all the mechanisms which you rail against are in fact > how things work now. Your statement of how things should work matches my > understanding of how things ought to work in the *long* term, but we have > a lot of short- and medium-term w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:19:29PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > But as ksh88 cannot be included in OpenSolaris, Sun needs to either deviate > > from other OpenSolaris based distros or convert to ksh93 too. > > What Alan was saying is that once

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, John Beck wrote: > Keith> What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences > Keith> exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions > Keith> to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be > Keith> used by Solaris an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:48:52AM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Why does it have to be 100% compatible? That is a serious question. > What breaks so bad that not having access to the source is considered > a viable solution? 100% compatibility is not always required. Sometimes, no compatibil

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/25/05, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 25, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences > > exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions > > to ksh93 for backward compatibility; th

AT&T OpenSources: WAS Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Logue
Folks, How about some data to discuss regarding ksh93 differences? Attached is the latest COMPATIBILITY file from the ksh93 sources. Please Peruse: http://www.kornshell.com/ http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ PS. Note that pax is available from AT&T too... -STEVEl --- John Beck <[EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread John Beck
Keith> What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences Keith> exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions Keith> to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be Keith> used by Solaris and included with OpenSolaris for other distribu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 25, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be used by Solaris and included with

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:19:29PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > But as ksh88 cannot be included in OpenSolaris, Sun needs to either deviate > from other OpenSolaris based distros or convert to ksh93 too. What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences exists, it should be po

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC)
Joerg Schilling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely; but if we can replace /bin/ksh with a dual mode binary which can do both. If the license issues did not change, this would still be a decision that is not useful for OpenSolaris as there would be no source for ksh88. If there i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Absolutely; but if we can replace /bin/ksh with a dual mode binary which > can do both. If the license issues did not change, this would still be a decision that is not useful for OpenSolaris as there would be no source for ksh88. > >If there is a serious compatibilit

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 >>> (g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're >>> not 100% compatible. >> >> We can certainly ship ksh 93 as /bin/ksh93. >> >> It would be n

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 (g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're not 100% compatible. We can certainly ship ksh 93 as /bin/ksh93. It would be nice if we could someho

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can't Be Talked About In Public (and hey, I still find it deeply amusing > > that after all these years, Red Hat is finally shipping AT&T ksh source > > and Sun has no plans to ship ksh code ;-), but if stuff that's of high > > They're shipping

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Casper . Dik
>They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 >(g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're >not 100% compatible. We can certainly ship ksh 93 as /bin/ksh93. It would be nice if we could somehow qualify the differences and have a single binary w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:11:39AM -0400, Chris Ricker wrote: > On a somewhat related note, for the stuff that hasn't been opened yet, is > there any possibility of reprioritizing? For example, it's been said on Yes, but understand that in many cases it's not up to us; the organisation that own

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-23 Thread Chris Ricker
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:26:58PM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > > Me too. What is the reason that the ata driver wasn't released as source? > > In truth we're not allowed to tell you why it's not there, but you > could read our VP's blog at > http

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread Dan Mick
UNIX admin wrote: No estimated date; we're waiting for groups to coordinate and give permission at the moment. Soon, I hope. Me too. What is the reason that the ata driver wasn't released as source? Does it matter? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:24, UNIX admin wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:52, UNIX admin wrote: > > So you have logged the relevant bugs in > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org > > right ? Which bug numbers are these ? > > No, I haven't; It's the way the ata driver works in certain situations, and I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:26:58PM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > Me too. What is the reason that the ata driver wasn't released as source? In truth we're not allowed to tell you why it's not there, but you could read our VP's blog at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gaw?entry=it_s_alive, which shoul

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:52, UNIX admin wrote: > > So you have logged the relevant bugs in > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org > > right ? Which bug numbers are these ? > > No, I haven't; It's the way the ata driver works in certain situations, and I > don't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread Dan Mick
UNIX admin wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:52, UNIX admin wrote: So you have logged the relevant bugs in http://bugs.opensolaris.org right ? Which bug numbers are these ? No, I haven't; It's the way the ata driver works in certain situations, and I don't believe it's a bug, rather an oversig

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread UNIX admin
> No estimated date; we're waiting for groups to > coordinate and give > permission at the moment. > > Soon, I hope. Me too. What is the reason that the ata driver wasn't released as source? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-disc

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread UNIX admin
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:52, UNIX admin wrote: > So you have logged the relevant bugs in > http://bugs.opensolaris.org > right ? Which bug numbers are these ? No, I haven't; It's the way the ata driver works in certain situations, and I don't believe it's a bug, rather an oversight. I just wa