[illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Tue Jul 26 11:31:22 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:21 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 07/26/11 04:17, "C. Bergström" wrote:
> > Intel used to provide really good support on Solaris, but I'm not sure if that's
> > still the case?
> 
> Intel provides that video card support via integrations of the i915 driver into
> the Solaris ON gate, so while they still provide really good support for Intel
> graphics on Solaris, illumos support is currently stagnating.

I'm working with intel, but to be honest, their agreements with Oracle
make this difficult.  Apparently their agreements may limit how they are
able to release code to other parties.  I blame Oracle.

	- Garrett





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