[opensolaris-summit] New topic: Expanding OpenSolaris hardware support, reaching out to hardware vendors and helping them port."

[Garrett D'Amore]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
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>>> Anyway I think that we need to put our heads together to figure out
>>> how to expand driver support.
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>> Before we can get started with adding driver support, we have to know
>> first what is supported.
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> I believe that we should set up a list with anorder of importance and I believe
> that this should be layered to e.g. driver groups. I would be happy to see e.g
> Blue tooth support in my notebook and suspend (or better suspend) support.
>   


Suspend is working just fine now.  Its *resume* that is the tricky part. ;-)

Seriously, though, I have just been asked to start looking at 
Suspend/Resume for a certain brand of laptop.  Its likely that once that 
work is done, we'll expand the scope to include support for a variety of 
other models.

Suspend in this case means S3 (suspend to ram) initially.  S4 (suspend 
to disk) is something we still need on x86 as well.  (We already have it 
on SPARC.)

> Then it makes sense to discuss specific hardware that is more important than 
> others.
>   

There will always be favorite hardware that is missing from the list.  
Making such a list is useful, but shouldn't gate the effort of getting 
information out to folks who want to help.

I can think probably of a half-dozen or so simple driver projects for 
folks to undertake, if they were so inclined.  Right now, the number of 
people with time and inclination, and ability (or ability to learn) is 
the limiting factor.   Anything that addresses *that* gap is likely to 
be of the most use.

    -- Garrett

> Jörg
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