Contributed by jose on from the call-for-help dept.
"Looks like SUN keeps on having preferences although it keeps constantly pestering Microsoft about not beeing open. They aren't better.. This message has been posted to the misc@openbsd.org mailing list by Theo:If any of you can help, this would greatly improve support on the Ultrasparc platform. If you haven't seen OpenBSD on the Sparc64 platform, you're missing out. If you do contact Sun, please be cordial and make a good impression about the OpenBSD project. No need to give them reason to not share documentation."We've been trying to get ultrasparc 3 documentation for quite some time. The documentation Sun provides on the net is not sufficient to write an operating system, and Sun admits it. Various developers have been trying, and it is CLEAR we need more documentation. We've been trying for more than a year to get Sun to open up. We've talked to about 20 people who work there. Nothing has progressed. We have documentation for basically every 32 or 64 -bit processor made, except for this one. (For ethernet cards, we have documentation for everything except 2, for RAID cards we have documentation for everything except 2, for scsi cards we have documentation for everything). Previously, our user community's assistance in contacting Adaptec personal caused Adaptec to have a rapid change in heart regarding scsi chipset documentation. I do not feel this is harrassment, since you are letting your vendor know you want them to support you. Adaptec initially got very upset, but I have heard reports that the person who had slacked in getting us documentation nearly got fired. Regarding Sun, we've tried very hard to find the person who is responsible in this regard, and it is clear that we have found who is responsible; in a voice call 3 weeks ago he assured me that he was the person who would change this if he could, and that I need not try finding anyone else. Other employees also pointed me up the chain to him. Ahmad Zandi (408) 616-5783 ahmad.zandi@sun.com Please give him a call and let him know that you want us to have documentation. I am going to be talking up some press people on this issue. The level of stonewalling we have received on this is just so arrogant, it is just so offensive. If Sun says they are open, they need to start acting it."
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By Anonymous Coward () on
If Sun says they don't have decent documentation about the US3's, they are flat out *lying* to you. They can't port Solaris without this documentation. If this situation keeps up, I'm going to sell my Sun stock (at a loss, I bought it at $13/share and it's really gone into the shitter since then).
By grey () on
(Takes this opportunity to remind folks about ye olde Monkey FUQ on how to be an OpenBSD advocate [even if it was ripped from a Linux piece]).
http://monkey.org/openbsd/advocating-openbsd.html
Remember, when campaigning - it's often most effective simply to show a lot of voices and concern, but that doesn't mean you need to be rude. Hopefully we can give them a wake up call the nice way first. I'm sure we'll hear from Theo et al if Sun still isn't getting the point. Until then, please act responsibly if you contact Ahmad, even if you're not a developer, when you call up on behalf of OpenBSD you should put your best foot forward.
By Anonymous Coward () on
By Anonymous Coward () on
anyways, it looks quite hopeful that the proper people will get the proper docs - maybe i'll get my boss to order me a Blade 2000 tomorrow!
oh, wait, they cost $7500 minimum.
By Anonymous Coward () on
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