OpenSolaris

Introduction

      This project's primary goal is to create synergy between OpenSolaris and
      NetBeans/Sun Studio, by leveraging the NetBeans / Sun S tudio IDE to assist
      with OpenSolaris driver and kernel development.

Functionality

Source Navigator

• One-click automated OpenSolaris source code download and build
• One-click automated "Solaris + updated drivers" installation DVD burn

Driver Workshop

• Hypertext search of Solaris "man" page
• Lower the barriers to entry of OpenSolaris device driver development
• GUI module debugging environment
• Standardize Sun-defined test suites for qualification and verification of
     device drivers and kernel modules

Status 

      The alpha 1.1 version has been finished, and provides new features:

• Solaris driver project supports the C/C++ project's editors feature in NetBeans 6.1, that can:
• ON project uses the OpenGrok project to support cross reference searching, that can:

      The alpha 1.0 version has been finished, and provides these features:

• download & update the latest ON source code
• environment configuration setting and nightly build
• "Solaris + updated driver" x86 installation DVD generation
• Templates to help generate nic, scsi hba and raid drivers
• Solaris driver package generation
• Solaris driver ITU image generation
• GUI environment for binary / library debugging
• GUI environment for system and core file analyzing
• GUI environment for remote machine kernel module debugging with kmdb(1)
• Hypertext search of Solaris manpages

      The plans for the next version (beta) are:

• Solaris nic and scsi hba driver generation wizard improvement
• add an sata hba driver generation wizard
• provide more sample drivers
• enhance the debugging tools

Download 

      extract the gz files, then get all .nbm files. For those who has 2 or more parts of
      please follow below instruction to get the whole image.

• The alpha 1.1 version
  OpenSolaris Source Code Project plug-in
  burn your own updated Solaris DVD plug-in
  Generate a new driver for Solaris plug-in
  OpenSolaris Help plug-in part 1
  OpenSolaris Help plug-in part 2
   (# gunzip help-1-1-x∗.gz )
   (# cat help-1-1-x∗ > help.tar )
  User Guide for starfish v1.1
  pre-installation script

• The alpha 1.0 version
  OpenSolaris Source Code Project plug-in
  burn your own updated Solaris DVD plug-in
  Generate a new driver for Solaris plug-in
  OpenSolaris Help plug-in

How to Use 

• The alpha 1.1 version guide
  Simplified installation guid 
  User Guide documentationDownload

• The alpha 1.0 version guide
  starfish install/remove Demo
  OpenSolaris Demo
  DriverWorkshop Demo