On 7/27/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > All of them should compile and run (against Xorg servers) on SPARC.
There is nothing i would love more than to be able to run Xorg with all these extensions working on SPARC and my XVR-1000 card, so i can watch DVD's at more than 1280x1024 fullscreen and use the Xv/XvMC drivers instead of the CPU pig also known as Xshm on Xsun SPARC. Can i do this on Solaris 10 U2 06/06 SPARC ? ;-) > Yep. Note that these are not "gratuitous" incompatibilities but rather > a historical bagage which we will want to get rid of over time: > > - No Xorg drivers for SPARC hardware > - fbconfig before Xrandr existed > - No interest on the SPARC side to support the latest Xorg > extensions > > > This is yet another example of why "branch, close source and modify" > is such a bad development model. You (and your customers) pay through > the nose later. exaclty. so then back to my original question: why start off the Power PC Solaris port with an already obsolete (and not open source) Korn Shell ? i have no personal emotional attachment to the Korn Shell, i use the T-Shell. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman stefan.teleman at gmail.com
