[ogb-discuss] Project proposal - Integration (MFI driver for LSI network chipsets)

[Ian Collins]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> The only vendor that the overwhelming majority of users, developers,
>> and customers care about is the definition of the binary ABI as
>> published by Sun.
>>     
>
> This was true in the pre-OpenSolaris time.
>
> Since we have OpenSolaris, there was the hope that interfaces are no
> longer defined by Sun as dictator but by the community. It seems that 
> this is not true.
>
>   
Bit of a tricky one that, if OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris are to retain
binary compatibility, which is the cart and which is the horse?

Ian