[svlug] Fedora or Ubuntu for novis

[Alan DuBoff]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Karen Shaeffer wrote:

> I have a tough time with this statement. LSI has open source drivers
> in the Linux kernel. They've been there for a while. They maintain
> them. Last I looked, Sun doesn't contribute any code to the Linux
> kernel. I have a question Alan. You do work with the Open Solaris
> project, right? Maybe you are referring to LSI open sourcing Open
> Solaris drivers?

I am under the impression the megasas was the first driver they 
open sourced, maybe I misunderstood their legal, and I didn't 
work on it directly. Maybe they did mean for OpenSolaris only, 
that I don't know. That was not my impression of what I was 
told.

Are the management tools available for Linux? If so, I'd like to 
know.

I do work on OpenSolaris but didn't work directly to integrate 
the LSI drivers.

You have my curiousity, about LSI's drivers in Linux. Tell me 
more about the management software. I'm not clear if that piece 
is done on OpenSolaris, but LSI is doing it, AFAIK.

I see no bad in Sun getting sources opened, and if I 
miscommented, my bad, certainly wasn't intentional.

However, nvidia writes Linux drivers also, I've seen what that 
means in their case. AFAIK, the nv driver is available for 
Linux, but not the nvidia.

Working with hardware vendors is tricky, I do know that. There's 
a lot of proprietary code in many drivers and/or the management 
pieces.

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Alan DuBoff - Software Orchestration