Oracle Solaris kernel development

foxmulder881 · 23rd June 2012, 7:48 PM

I am interested in getting involved in some Solaris kernel stuff. Is the Solaris kernel open? Because I can't seem to find any option for downloading the kernel source code, anywhere!

zach · 23rd June 2012, 7:51 PM

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/

foxmulder881 · 23rd June 2012, 9:34 PM

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Originally Posted by zach

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/

Yeah I seen that, but there's no kernel code.

Smakked · 23rd June 2012, 10:24 PM

Hit me up if you want books and full solaris software , this is what i work with everyday

bugayev · 24th June 2012, 8:25 AM

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Originally Posted by foxmulder881

Yeah I seen that, but there's no kernel code.

You mean apart from here, which then has a section that says:

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uts: Kernel sources are here (UTS == UNIX Time Sharing).

foxmulder881 · 24th June 2012, 5:50 PM

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Originally Posted by bugayev

You mean apart from here, which then has a section that says:

Cool thanks. I think that's what I was after. I missed all that before.

Is there any way of sourcing the whole kernel code in one hit though?

bugayev · 25th June 2012, 7:13 AM

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Originally Posted by foxmulder881

Cool thanks. I think that's what I was after. I missed all that before.

Is there any way of sourcing the whole kernel code in one hit though?

Yes, there is. I'll give you a hint - you click three links after that and it'll explain how to get the source code as either a tarball or checkout through mercurial.

foxmulder881 · 25th June 2012, 7:37 AM

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Originally Posted by bugayev

Yes, there is. I'll give you a hint - you click three links after that and it'll explain how to get the source code as either a tarball or checkout through mercurial.

Yep, still have no idea where you're talking about.

All I'm seeing is this...

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foxmulder881 · 25th June 2012, 7:43 AM

I think the Illumos kernel might be what I'm after. https://bitbucket.org/illumos/illumos-gate/src

foxmulder881 · 25th June 2012, 9:06 AM

Well I pulled in the whole Illumos kernel locally. Wow, I never knew the Solaris kernel was so large uncompressed. The gz archive is ~200MB and then uncompressed takes it up almost ~600MB. Currently dumping the whole kernel into my Dropbox. I do all my development stuff directly from Dropbox directory as it just makes it so convenient and accessable.

elvis · 25th June 2012, 9:11 AM

What sort of development are you doing?

foxmulder881 · 25th June 2012, 9:15 AM

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Originally Posted by elvis

What sort of development are you doing?

Well at the moment, I have no precise plans. But just want to have a poke around because at current, I know not much about Solaris and its kernel.

grs1961 · 25th June 2012, 2:33 PM

You might want to hunt up a copy of "The Magic Garden Explained", by Berny Goodheart and James Cox.

Unless you have done OS development before, a lot of what goes on in the SVR4 kernel is opaque, to say the least, and this book does a very good job of explaining why some decisions were made. Back in the longago I had access to the System III code, and that was simple compared to SysV!

More recently, when I was doing stuff that was dependent on how the OS behaved I quite often re-read the relevant sections.

Have fun, anyway!

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25th June 2012, 7:43 AM	#9
foxmulder881 Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Gold Coast, QLD OS:R.Hat Posts: 5,845	I think the Illumos kernel might be what I'm after. https://bitbucket.org/illumos/illumos-gate/src

25th June 2012, 9:06 AM	#10
foxmulder881 Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Gold Coast, QLD OS:R.Hat Posts: 5,845	Well I pulled in the whole Illumos kernel locally. Wow, I never knew the Solaris kernel was so large uncompressed. The gz archive is ~200MB and then uncompressed takes it up almost ~600MB. Currently dumping the whole kernel into my Dropbox. I do all my development stuff directly from Dropbox directory as it just makes it so convenient and accessable.

25th June 2012, 2:33 PM	#13
grs1961 Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Melbourne Posts: 423	You might want to hunt up a copy of "The Magic Garden Explained", by Berny Goodheart and James Cox. Unless you have done OS development before, a lot of what goes on in the SVR4 kernel is opaque, to say the least, and this book does a very good job of explaining why some decisions were made. Back in the longago I had access to the System III code, and that was simple compared to SysV! More recently, when I was doing stuff that was dependent on how the OS behaved I quite often re-read the relevant sections. Have fun, anyway!