2008/043 [Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]
Nicolas Williams
Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Wed Jan 23 13:59:30 PST 2008
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:39:54PM -0800, John Plocher wrote:
> My understanding is that we do intent to "support" it, but not in phase 1.
> I agree that the "internal, not in /dev" mechanism sounds like the right
> first step; my question was really about the predicted "harm" that would
> be caused by exposing it now. It sounds like (from Freeman's response)
> that there is no real harm, since the phaseI driver already supports
> the things that the existing 3rd party client applications depend upon.
Provided that adding Sun Ray support does not require removing
/dev/dsp... (But, surely /dev/dsp can be virtualized by seat, right?)
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