[oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Personal announcement: update on donations and good News: Can directly continue with DRM/GEM/KMS without interruption due to having to serve pizza

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Nov 20 19:04:24 UTC 2015


On 11/19/15 11:29 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> I will require some days to write a worthy ANNOUNCE file with explanations and
> all the trouble I went through in summer of 2013  at a time before Sun published
> their KMS port and when nobody could imagine, that Sun/Oracle would be so cool
> to give us their port (big thanks to Ken for bugging Alan Coopersmith long
> enough and hard enough, and to Mr. Alan Coopersmith for being once again on our
> side [after the same took already place with openXsun in summer 2010 <my port of
> the port soon at GitHub, is in the queue for publication since August 2012,
> untouched, now the time has come after earlier mutual misunderstandings>]).

Thanks - but while I supported the publication of the DRM/KMS sources, I didn't
actually do any work for it - that was all done by Randy, with the primary goal
of better cooperation & sharing with upstream & with other OS'es shipping those
drivers - whether Linux, BSD, or illumos based.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc




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