Episode #9: Keeping Drivers Under Control [Videos] David Stewart talks about why devise driver stability is important for running your mission critical applications on Solaris or OpenSolaris, then he delves into the technologies that provide tons of s ...
Posted: 2008-10-20 13:09:18 by David Stewart (Intel), Jerry Makare (Intel)
OpenSolaris and Intel Video - Keeping Drivers under Control [Blogs] 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 ...
Posted: 2008-10-31 14:57:13 by David Stewart (Intel)
Sun + Intel + OpenSolaris + 2 Years = The Year of Core [Blogs] Today is the second anniversary of the Sun and Intel joint agreement to optimize the Solaris operating system for Intel Xeon processors. Like last year, when I wrote this summary of our work, I decid ...
Posted: 2009-01-22 23:02:24 by David Stewart (Intel)
Intel's Virtualization for Directed I/O (a.k.a IOMMU) Part 1 [Blogs] IOMMU's or Input/Output Memory Management Unit is a new entrant to the x86 world. This is something which has existed in the risc based systems for quite some time. You can get a brief introduction on ...