On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Hillel Lubman wrote: > >> 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).
If someone had such a machine, and a copy of the Xsun packages and associated drivers (perhaps from the last SXCE release), could they install Xsun and have that work? (I realize that the definition of "work" would be somewhat limited, but compared to a doorstop it may be good enough.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
