Re: [smartmontools-support] compiling 5.38 on Solaris Sparc

[lingjun w. (Simon) <Lingjun.Wang@Sun.COM>]

Bruce & Sawada,
I found a solution for this problem. I will update INSTALL for this trick.

See my inline comments.

Bruce Allen:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, SAWADA Keiji wrote:
>
>   
>>> Keiji, this reminds me about something.  I thought you were going to start
>>> distributing os_solaris_ata.c or .cpp.  If there is still a licensing or
>>> copyright issue with this, perhaps Simon can help resolve this from inside
>>> Sun Microsystems.
>>>       
>> os_solaris_ata.cpp is freely available(*1). I will add it to CVS later.
>>     
>
> Great!
>
>   
>> In the past, it was hidden because Solaris/SPARC ATA code uses
>> unpublished UDCD interface.  Now it's not secret thanks to OpenSolaris,
>> but it is not clear that we can distribute related CDDL header files(*2)
>> with GPL smartmontools package.
>> Simon, do you think such packaging/distribution is possible?
>>     
>
> Simon, it would be very helpful if you could work from within Sun 
> Microsystems to help us get this permission, if needed.
>
>   
I will try whatever I can do to make this happen.

Cheers,
- Simon

>> (*1)
>> http://card-captor.dyndns.org/pub/solaris-smart/how-to-access-smart.html
>>
>> (*2)
>> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/sun/sys/dada/impl/udcd.h
>> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/sun/sys/dada/impl/commands.h
>>     
>
> Cheers,
>       Bruce
>
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