Couple of quick questions:

1) Would it make sense to support this on x86 hardware as well?  (I'm 
thinking server class headless systems, which I gather is the target 
market for these chips.)

2) Does the driver support any power management features?  (power(9e) or 
DDI_SUSPEND?)

3) Does this driver support the graphics mode console and/or virtual 
terminals?  (Perhaps this question doesn't make sense -- I'm not sure 
how this driver interacts with remote consoles... or maybe I'm 
misunderstanding something.)

4) Actually, if this behaves in a manner that is quite different from a 
typical framebuffer with local display and keyboard, then a bit more 
detailed background information would be helpful.  Of course, if it 
really is just a typical framebuffer, then just simply say so... the 
ASPEED website doesn't really help make things clear to me.

Thanks.

    -- Garrett

Eric Sultan wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this case for Grace Wang, the timeout set to expire next
> Tuesday, December 16, 2008.  The requested release binding is patch.
>
> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI
> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
> 1. Introduction
>     1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>        SPARC support for AST graphics
>     1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>        Author:  Grace Wang
>     1.3  Date of This Document:
>       09 December, 2008
>
> 4. Technical Description
>
>    This project delivers SPARC graphics support for the AST2100
>    graphics component. The deliverables include a ddx (Xorg) module, a
>    kernel driver, a vts module and an fbconfig module. The driver name
>    is ast. The source code for these modules is based on ASPEED
>    technology.  The Xorg code will be delivered into the Xorg
>    consolidation.
>
> Interfaces exported:
>
>    /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so    Uncommitted
>    /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ast                    Uncommitted
>    /usr/lib/sparcv9/libvtsSUNWast.so.1                Uncommitted
>    /usr/lib/fbconfig/libSUNWast_conf.so               Uncommitted 
>    /usr/share/man/man1m/fbconf_xorg.1m                Uncommitted  modified 
> man page
>    /usr/share/man/man7d/ast.7d                        Uncommitted 
>
> Interfaces imported:
>
>    Xorg server CLI/API/ABI                    External  (ref PSARC 2004/187)
>
> 6. Resources and Schedule
>     6.4. Steering Committee requested information
>       6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
>               Graphics
>     6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
>     6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>   


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