From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kumba Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:11:39 +0000 Subject: Re: fd0 not found Message-Id: <42E9BA8B.4000601@gentoo.org> List-Id: References: <42E61753.8050502@cpttm.org.mo> In-Reply-To: <42E61753.8050502@cpttm.org.mo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > > Furthermore, anyone planning to "learn something" from opensolaris and > then incorporate such things into Linux had better well explicitly > implement and properly document a closed room implementation where one > person reads the OpenSolaris code, explains what is happening to > another person, who in turn implements the Linux version. > > Otherwise there are grave contamination and copyright infringement > issues possible. One would, in addition to the properly documented > closed room implementation, need to do a patent check on the ideas > being copied over as well. > > As a result of all that, looking to OpenSolaris for information to > help out the Linux sparc port is a bad idea. I assumed this was the case likely. Was more a mild curiosity on what the feasbility of that was (And whether it's even remotely possible). I've already peered at OS code out of boredem and in doing so, I noticed they had a kludge/hack in place for that IDE DMA issue that's always plagued the b100 series, so it piqued my interest. --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond