[indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Requirements for an OpenSolaris endorsed/reference distro

[Martin Bochnig]

> Martin Bochnig wrote:
> > Why not continuing to bundle community efforts into (Indiana(, which has
> been derived from BeleniX(, which had been derived from SchilliX))) &&
> (which will be derived from MartUX-SPARC's framework)  ?
> 
> I don't know of any reason why that should not continue, and I didn't
> intend anything in my message to imply that it shouldn't.


OK, good. I didn't read the entire thread's context.
 

> > I'm currently in the process of porting it to SPARC for over 10 days
> now, that's the reason why I don't have the time to write any messages.
> 
> Understood, and thanks for your effort.


:-)

 
> > Plus my attempt to port the radeon DRM (kernel level) driver to
> Solaris_x86 DDI/DKI (based on Sun's i915 port) makes also a bit progress: It
> already modloads now, even attaches and properly creates the device nodes, see
> here (but it is still *broken* pre-alpha stuff, therefore no code drop yet) :
> 
> The Solaris x86 driver team has already ported the Radeon DRM module to
> Solaris, and are testing/debugging it now, unfortunately they haven't done
> a code drop yet either.  (I keep asking them to participate in OpenSolaris
> and thought they were approaching the driver community, but don't see
> that they've done so yet, though there are some mentions of a project
> proposal in the driver-discuss mailing list archives.)


I recently discovered their announcement.
A pity that they are already done with it, then I wasted a week for poorly inventing a quadratic wheel. But I see it positively, as I finally understood a number of previously mysterious things, after having read two books on docs.sun.com, most notably http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/805-3024/805-3024.pdf !! -  Highly recommended.
Thanks for the info. Then I can dedicate the full amount of my time (besides school and so on) to SPARC-Indiana. Note: I'm overseas from November 15th to 21st, so there will be a stall for a week.

-martin-