Rich Reynolds wrote:
IMHO this will generate a fork that is unnecessary or worse it
codifies a previous fork, and is bad for the community.
It doesn't necessarily generate a fork. It *does* mean that if you want
to support this platform, you will need an additional bit of code in a
separate repository from ON. The code can move there. Sun isn't going
to keep this platform code in ON, because frankly, the current support
is badly incomplete (basic functionality like the power button,
battery/power management, and numerous extra Sun keyboard keys are
simply not supported in ON today.) Even worse, going forward there will
be no driver support for the framebuffer on this platform, as there is
*no* freely redistributable device driver for it, and the SXCE
distribution is ending.
Wanting to continue supporting this platform in OpenSolaris is,
unfortunately, at this point just tilting at windmills.
(The implications of the demise of SXCE for other SPARC workstations
with unsupported graphics cards in them are left as an exercise for the
reader.)
- Garrett
rich
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
This platform is doomed from lack of resource to properly support, so
we should just remove it.
Here's the webrev with the details, I could really appreciate a code
review.
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gdamore/sparcle/
Thanks!
- Garrett
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