OpenSolaris and Intel Video - Keeping Drivers under Control

By David Stewart (Intel) (138 posts) on October 31, 2008 at 2:57 pm

One of the cool things we have added to OpenSolaris recently is a capability which strengthens the whole foundation of stability on which the OS and processor rests. It does this by addressing one of chronic weak links of any operating system. I'm very excited by this work, and hope you enjoy it!

On the aesthetics of this clip, we changed the color scheme of the background (I think it looks like some dream sequence from Twin Peaks, if you ever watched that).

Here's another bit of trivia: the opening graphics were changed to show actual source code - and the editor selected code out of OpenSolaris, of course!

(There is one factual technical error I noticed today when I screened the video - can you spot it?)

Video embedded below:

Original video content here.

Categories: Open Source, Virtualization

Comments (3)

November 1, 2008 2:26 PM PDT


xRaich[o]²x		 Right now the weakest link in my system seems to be the Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller.
You guys might want to take a look at this bug:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3690
The system becomes unusable after performing some I/O.

Regards,
Björn
November 1, 2008 2:57 PM PDT


Dave Stewart		 Bjorn - that does look frustrating. I'll send some mail around and see if we can help.
November 1, 2008 9:50 PM PDT


EdwardOCallaghan		 I have a similar if not the same problem as Björn that I reported a while ago. - Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
More details here:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2978

My system also can becomes unusable after performing I/O.

Regards,
Edward.

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