Hillel Lubman wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 02:08, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 1/3/2010 3:18 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote:
>>> On 03/01/2010 17:58, Some Sparc User wrote:
>>> However I had issues when installing it on Sun Blade 2500. It didn't
>>> contain a driver for Sun XVR-1200 video card. Are drivers supposed to be
>>> included on SPARC CD or they are expected to be provided somehow
>>> additionally?
>>
>> XVR-1200 is EOL and will not be supported under OpenSolaris. The only
>> SPARC Graphics that OpenSolaris will support are XVR-50, XVR-100,
>> XVR-300, XVR-2500, and AST.
>>
> I see. I guess I'm out of luck here, since XVR-2500 requires PCI-Express
> which is absent on Sun Blade 2500. Is XVR-300 compatible with Sun Blade
> 2500?
XVR-300 & XVR-2500 are PCI-Express. Only XVR-100 is PCI.
(XVR-50 & AST are directly on server motherboards, not sold as separate
cards.)
> It's strange that Sun drops support for legacy SPARC graphics
> cards, especially when drivers remain closed source.
It's largely because they're closed source - if they were open, someone in
the community could port them from Xsun to Xorg, but since we can't open the
sources, and aren't going to assign the resources to port them, there's no
drivers we can ship (hard to make a business case for spending a lot of effort
on hardware that's been off the price list for years, and will be near or past
the end of support life by the time most customers are ready to move, so there's
no sales or service revenue to be made).
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
