OpenSolaris

Heads Up: Brussels - enhanced network driver configuration via dladm

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:48:55 -0500
From: sowmini.varadhan at sun dot com
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at sun dot com
Subject: Heads Up: Brussels - enhanced network driver configuration via dladm

The putback of

   PSARC 2007/429 "Brussels - enhanced network driver
                   configuration via dladm"

provides a configuration framework for administering network drivers
through the GLDv3 framework in Solaris Nevada. This has a
few ramifications for Network device-driver developers.

Project teams that propose new network drivers should no longer
need to provide ndd(1m) entry points for administering their driver.
Instead, such drivers should provide setprop and getprop
entry points as defned in PSARC 2007/429.

The putback of PSARC 2007/429  also converts the bge driver to
the Brussels framework, so that the recommended method for
administering properties of the bge driver is using the dladm(1m)
command.

Information about the Brussels framework, including documentation
of the driver interfaces for Brussels can be found at

           http://opensolaris.org/os/project/brussels

Please send mail to brussels-iteam at sun dot com with any issues/questions.
Bugs can be filed in the appropriate under product Solaris using the
appropriate cat/sub-cat from network/dladm, kernel/tcp-ip, driver/bge.

As mentioned in http://onnv.sfbay/links/flagdays/pages/2008012302.html,
a draft dladm(1M) man page is also available for those wishing to use
the new features introduced by the Brussels/Clearview projects
before the man page is integrated into the WOS. The man page may
be found at:
 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/dladm-uv-brussels.1m.txt

~-- Sowmini & the Brussels team.