[illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?

[Sunay Tripathi]

On 07/26/11 11:31 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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.
>

You'll need to write your own code from the spec. You can probably get
Intel to provide the support in BSD (if not already) and use that for
help. Would be happy to set a bounty for someone in community willing
to add this support. The goal would be take one of the newer ACER
(or something) with integrated graphics and make it run under
opensolaris.

Cheers,
Sunay