[illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 07/26/11 15:38, Sunay Tripathi wrote:
> 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.

Intel already provides the DRI code under a BSD license for use in Linux & BSD,
it's things like the integration of the graphics memory manager with each
specific kernel's memory manager that are the harder work in porting.   See for
instance the various BSD ports of the DRI code, which is working off this
common upstream.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081029164221
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2011-February/001361.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2011/06/08/msg016843.html

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System