23 Feb
2023
23 Feb
'23
2:46 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 1:12 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 01:04:37PM -0700, Warner Losh
wrote:
I know there's i386 source kits for the Roadrunner, and that's really the
only thing that SunOS ever supported, at least that was sold. I'd been told
that it had been poorly integrated by people that had worked on it here in
Boulder, so I believe that.
In the 4.1.3 sources there's a number of i386 ifdefs, and at least a math
library
for i386. But no kernel bits, except for a bunch of ifdefs for i386 that
I've not
looked at closely. Maybe this is what is meant by 'poorly integrated' :)
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 8:50 AM Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is SunOS as in everything shipped, kernel and userspace, and there
is the kernel. So far as I remember, the i386 stuff was never integrated
into the source tree that Sun shipped from. There was the roadrunner
stuff but I don't think that ever made it in to the official tree. If
it did, nobody paid attention to it. All people cared about at the
time as SPARC and I don't think there was any outsourced hacking for
SPARC, that was all in house.
Has anyone tried talking to anyone at Oracle
about possibly getting
the SunOS code released under an open source license? There can't be
any commercial value left in it.
SunOS 4 has a lot of encumbered code in it, especially for i386 drivers. The networking stack in SunOS 4.x was BSD derived.
You might be thinking
of Solaris, that took the Lachman STREAMS stack but that was 5.x, not
4.x.
I was thinking of the streams stuff that's in 4.x BSD. There's AT&T
copyrights
on it. There's also, strangely, rfs sources included with some of the stuff
one
can find online. But it looks to be imported nearly verbatim from System V
of some flavor with very few edits, judging by the 1.1 versions in many of
the
files.
As the only guy, that I'm aware of, who took all
the encumbered stuff
out of the kernel, put back the BSD tty drivers and a few other small
things that resulted in a kernel that we could freely open source,
I beg to differ with:
I'm just reporting what my VP told me... Grepping through the source I can
find online, the evidence is closer to what you say than what Glen told me.
Either he or I must have confused Solaris 2 with SunOS 4.
Warner
Bits of the
network stack as well. It was hopeless to try to open source. There was a
lot of bits
and pieces that Sun had done with contracts that were, at best, ambiguous
for
what to do should they want to open source it.