On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:23 +0100, Chris Newport wrote: > Last Solaris support for sun4d was Solaris 2.8 so all of the code will > be there in 2.6 somewhere. Maybe it is just a special case within sun4m > with a few extra drivers, or maybe the code has not been released. > The SS1000 is frustratingly similar to the SS20, most of the devices are > common. > > ISTR that Sun4d was a joint venture with Cray, so some code might > be encumbered. I have not seen code so I can only guess. I hate to be a bother here, but aren't there some legal concerns with looking at Solaris source code, then implementing code in Linux? Even on OpenSolaris, there is a grey area as to whether one can legally view CDDL licensed code, then reimplement it as GPL (CDDL is GPL-Incompatible) for Linux... but on old Solaris, that code should be proprietary, unless Sun opened it when I wasn't looking. Mark, can you legally be doing this? ~spot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
