From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 20 19:24:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02714 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02628 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:23:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02158; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199809210222.TAA02158@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the Intel-UNIX standard In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:01:50 PDT." <199809210201.TAA02154@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:22:50 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am the wrong person for this task because I don't have time. Perhaps, someone from the commercial sector can step in : Oracle, Yahoo, Whistle or Juniper. All of the above companies have architect class engineers and it is really to their advantage to contribute something in this area. Amancio P.S.: I will try to review the UDI stuff this week and post a review however please don't hold your breath because among many things that I am doing is buying a house. > > > UDI is a reasonably nice framework. Someone with some time on their > > > hands might want to try implementing it for FreeBSD. Last time I read > > > the drafts, there were still significant omissions, particularly > > > addressing the way that a UDI driver might integrate with the system > > > > All the more reason for someone with some time to get involved now rather > > than later and finding out that there are significant architecture drawbacks > > which could possibily make UDI unfeasible for FreeBSD. > > > > Someone could probably make a case for FreeBSD given that Yahoo , Oracle, > > and a few other large companies are using FreeBSD and making money where > > as in the Linux camp thats probably a rarity . > > I've applied the pressure I've been able to, given the time. It may be > too late, but if you want to campaign on the issue, the person at Intel > to talk to is "Saxena, Sunil" . You might want > to include Mark Bradley and Kurt Gollhart > in your discussions. Note that these last two are "big > cheese" technical people (Kurt is SCO Core OS Architect), so you want to > be concise and avoid bullshitting them. > > Note that most of the guts of a UDI interface to an operating system is > system specific; you're providing the mapping between the UDI API and > the host API. In some cases, the mapping will be complex (eg. the UDI > SCSI driver backend to CAM), in others it will be trivial. > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message