Did Martin give anyone the source for the drivers he
built for SPARC?
Cheers
Andrew.
Hi, they still are where they have been:
http://www.martux.org/xorg/FOX1.0/src/FOXpre1.0_Alan20070901__Moinak20070501__Martin20070930__x64_x86_sparc_merge_XXX.tar.bz2
I'm currently merging them into
Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
I wish I could pick up his work and do something more substantial with it.
But I doubt that I have the time, or attention span, to learn enough of how
it all fits together to accomplish that. It's a heck of a waste not to have
those drivers, though.
I would love to
Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
At a minimum, it would be great to have the FOX drivers for SPARC
available in binary for the older boxen, even if in a status of compiles, but
testing and maintenance is a community issue. I think I'll try building FOX
for my SB2K (for the FFB2+ aka Creator 3D
Unfortunately, we just don't have the resource
within
the SPARC graphics
group to spend any time on all the work that is
required to open source
the drivers for obsolete SPARC hardware.
After consideration, I'm really ok with that, given
the AMD/ATI opening of their graphics chips
