[illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?

[Sunay Tripathi]

On 07/26/11 03:41 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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
>

Then seems like its just a coding exercise. Keeping the focus on server
is important but being able to run this on our own laptops and
desktops helps usability and stability (we know that from experience).
It seems to be quite painful (although not impossible) to find the
right desktop/laptop off the shelf these days.

Cheers,
Sunay