Well, as you may have read , Oracle has decided that at some point very soon, we're going to lose normal regular access to the source code for OS/Net. (I.e. the Solaris kernel and supporting programs.) While I would have vastly preferred for Illumos to have a cooperative and collaborative relationship with Oracle , it appears that Oracle doesn't value this. In fact, the exact words were from the management at Oracle were as follows: Solaris is not something we outsource to others, it is not the assembly of someone else’s technology, and it is not a sustaining-only product. While I understand the need to own the technology, there are few things that could be stated that show a stronger NIH attitude than this. Its unlikely that there will ever be a way for Oracle and the greater community to have a collaborative relationship. This is a dark day for OpenSolaris -- its effectively dead now. (Its parent, Solaris, lives on however.) How unfortunate. For Oracle that is. Because
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modunload -i "id of qfe"
cp /kernel/drv/sparcv9/hme /kernel/drv/sparcv9/qfe
modload qfe
devfsadm -C
now qfe seems to work with GLDv3 features.
But, yes, qfe is nearly 100% the same code as hme, and mostly the qfe changes just make it work by directly calling into the hme driver. (There are packaging changes, of course.)