[ethbridge-discuss] [dme at sun.com: What next for the ethbridge project?]

[James Carlson]

Mike "Ford" Ditto writes:
> David Edmondson wrote:
> > So, what to do next? Here are some options that occurred to me:
> > 
> > * Produce an updated version of the code in its' current form
> >   (i.e. standalone build, no DLPI changes),
> 
> (And do so in the form of an hg repository instead of a tar file.)
> 
> I'm willing to do this, especially if Dong-Hai will toss his updates
> over the wall for me to integrate.  I do prefer keeping it in a
> standalone form, and that way I'll test it (at least to the level of
> building, loading, and configuring the driver) on Solaris 10 and a few
> Nevada builds.

I suspect we'll end up needing to abandon S10 at some point in order
to stay close to Nemo.

> James Carlson wrote:
> > Also, one of the leaders (Mike Ditto) is gone and the project state is
> > unclear.
> 
> I'm gone in some sense, but not every sense.  At the very least, I still
> clear out the spam from the mailing list.  :-)

Cool.  ;-}

> > In order to determine which of these is the right direction, I think
> > it'd be helpful to have a design document for the existing bridging
> > code.  Does that exist?  Other than a README and a few discussions, I
> > don't see one.
> 
> The README is the design document.  :-)  I'm willing to put it in a more
> formal format or fill in more meat, especially if you point out any
> details you think are missing.  (I expect at least a description of
> packet flow through the different files/functions would be valuable.)

The packet flows would help, as would locking assumptions, reference
counts, and allocate/deallocate rules.

> > It's hard to keep up without a program, but looks like neither Yukun
> > Zhang nor Mike Ditto is with Sun or active anymore on opensolaris.org.
> > If that's true, that leaves the ethbridge project itself without
> > leaders and without a rudder.
> 
> I'm still a rudder or a keel or something, if someone else does some
> rowing.  I didn't know Yukun wasn't with Sun anymore.  Anyone with
> inclination, please volunteer to fill in his place as a project leader.

Since we have a burning need for this functionality in RBridges, I'll
(also) volunteer.

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