illumos

2020-05-28

11:28 PM illumos gate Bug #12801: libdiskmgt leaks PROM device information handles like a sieve

I remember running across that limit many years ago and being confounded by it. There is no real reason for it, and ... Garrett D'Amore

2020-03-24

08:31 PM illumos gate Bug #12443 (New): Need support for BCM54858 PHY in bnxe

There are some devices which ship with a newer BCM54858 PHY. (These devices also use additional QLogic vendor/device... Garrett D'Amore

2020-01-18

08:26 PM illumos gate Bug #12204: want driver for Mellanox ConnectX-4/5/6 NICs

This is very timely -- we (RackTop) had just retained another driver engineer (Paul Winder) to write just such a driv... Garrett D'Amore

2019-11-01

11:01 PM illumos gate Bug #11911 (New): Inconsistent case handling for properties in dladm

We noticed that when setting the mtu property using "mtu", the value would persist across reboots. But if we set the... Garrett D'Amore

2019-10-25

07:13 PM illumos gate Feature #11876: Want a native sleep

Yay. I've long felt that abdicating a bunch of stuff to the ksh93 implementation was a mistake; I even protested it ... Garrett D'Amore

2019-10-12

04:33 PM illumos gate Bug #11807: "private use area" characters should be marked as "printable"

Ok. Personally I think this is a mistake being made to accommodate non-standard use cases, but I understand the expe... Garrett D'Amore

2019-10-11

09:25 PM illumos gate Bug #11807: "private use area" characters should be marked as "printable"

I'm not sure I agree that it is safe to mark private use characters as printable. That *may* be the case, but genera... Garrett D'Amore

2019-10-09

05:16 PM illumos gate Bug #11762: GCC 5 and 6 need -Wno-maybe-uninitialized too

John Levon wrote:
> I would *strongly* recommend a prioritisation of a switch to GCC7. Simply put we have zero idea ... Garrett D'Amore

2019-07-18

04:35 PM illumos gate Bug #10167: unable to check out illumos-gate on Windows

The shell scripts are probably appropriate to be executable. The linenoise stuff in boot I can't explain -- I don't ... Garrett D'Amore

2019-07-17

07:05 PM illumos gate Feature #11477: `man` could strcasecmp the section name for `man <name>.<section>`

I seem to recall at some point having man page sections that were not identical but differed only in case. I'd consi... Garrett D'Amore