[SPARCbook] Solaris 9 on a 3gx ?

[Federico Lucifredi]

Actually I remember a while ago I was sent the linux/solaris device driver
porting kit by Sun.....

I wonder how hard such an enterprise might be - I am a strong C programmer,
but I have no knowledge of solaris device driver internals.... And this
would also require knowing about linux or Net/OpenBSD device driver design
(I guess the latter is probably simpler, but even then, I shiver at the lack
of documentation.... it implies a larger time committment to decode
everything yourself ;-)

-Federico

    -Federico
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 18:00
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Solaris 9 on a 3gx ?


> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:30, Koyote wrote:
>
> > There's no reason at all not to run solaris 9 if the fb driver can be
made to work- unfortunately, that seems to be beyond my skills.
>
> So what is the solution for this?  Is it practical (or even possible - I
> am not a programmer) to port the framebuffer driver that was made
> available for the Linux kernel?  IIRC, there was also one for OpenBSD.
>
> Thomas
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