[illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:09:44PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 11:53 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:21:28AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> >>The only hardware I have that doesn't work with Illumos now is my Acer
> >>AS3810T-6827 laptop.
> >I found another one that should be easier.  My ASUS Eeepc laptop runs
> >Opensolaris, but it has no driver for the wired ethernet.  Wireless
> >works.  The wired ethernet device shows up this way in `scanpci':
> >
> >     pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1969 device 0x1062
> >      Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
> >
> >Maybe I only need to modify the `atge' driver.
> 
> This is probably a fairly straight-forward task if you can find either 
> programming specs, or a working Linux driver.

I tried Ubuntu 10.10 on it.  The wired ethernet works.  What are the
legalities of examining the Linux driver or Red Hat patches to the
driver to find a fix for the Illumos driver?

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