[illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?

[Garrett D'Amore]

I'm working directly with Intel on these parts.  Stay tuned.

  -- Garrett D'Amore

On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Rocky Shek <rockys at dataonstorage.com> wrote:

> Garrett,
> 
> How about coming Sandy Bridge E5 series Dual socket CPU and current single socket E3 CPU?
> 
> Do we have any issue to support them? Will it be the same case that the agreement between Intel & Oracle prevent Intel to well support illumos?   
> 
> Rocky 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garrett at damore.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:31 AM
> To: Alan Coopersmith
> Cc: developer at lists.illumos.org
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?
> 
> 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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