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

[Igor Kozhukhov]

For logging you can try to configure boot options with serial console - you
will have more information with what driver failed on boot.

For example you can try to find options for TTYA, TTYB

As I know we can provide serial console configuration on boot to kernel and
monitor boot logs on serial console - more then only on screen.

If you know what driver failed you can try to update it and prepare miniroot
for loading system.

Best regards,
Igor


> From: Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:13:08 -0500
> To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org>
> Cc: "developer at lists.illumos.org" <developer at lists.illumos.org>
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)
> 
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
> 
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