As the creator of the Sparc port I guess I ought
to say something.
To be honest, I work exclusively these days on
the 64-bit port. UltraSparc is enough to take
all of my spare time when I'm not working on the
networking. And yu will note that at least in
Linus's tree, UltraSparc tends to be the most
uptodate non-x86 port, I send updates on an
almost daily basis to Linus.
I tried to keep 32-bit Sparc chugging along but
I stopped wanting to give the impression that I
could keep up, I simply couldn't do it all.
I could have kept trying and doing a half-assed
job on both the 64-bit and 32-bit ports. I'd
rather concentrate my energy on one port and do
a good job.
There is a binary-only *.a library in there
which actually drives the new features their
driver actually adds.
So this driver looks not to be open source
to me.:-)
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It's a greenshoe and perfectly legal.
There is nothing special about this, it's simply the limit orders at the issue price for the greenshoe shares built into the IPO.
The banks won't lose anything from propping up the price, they were using greenshoe shares which are built into most IPOs underwritten these days.
Greenshoe's make stabilization of the issue price a risk-free endeavor for the underwriter.
As the creator of the Sparc port I guess I ought to say something. To be honest, I work exclusively these days on the 64-bit port. UltraSparc is enough to take all of my spare time when I'm not working on the networking. And yu will note that at least in Linus's tree, UltraSparc tends to be the most uptodate non-x86 port, I send updates on an almost daily basis to Linus. I tried to keep 32-bit Sparc chugging along but I stopped wanting to give the impression that I could keep up, I simply couldn't do it all. I could have kept trying and doing a half-assed job on both the 64-bit and 32-bit ports. I'd rather concentrate my energy on one port and do a good job.
There is a binary-only *.a library in there which actually drives the new features their driver actually adds. So this driver looks not to be open source to me. :-)