Rich Reynolds wrote:
If it dosent work, no one will want to take ownership, and we generate a repository that is called un-contrib??? ;-)

The "doesn't work" attribute is why I'm pursuing removing it now. The code has been sitting in the ON gate for ~2 years now, waiting for me to finish getting the PS/2, power management, and synaptics driver support for it finished. I never found the cycles to do it, and Sun wasn't willing to *pay* me to do it (so the work had to take place on my own time -- indeed the initial platmod support was integrated without any support from Sun, and probably violated a few C-Team review rules simply because I didn't know about the requirement for them. I could never get a bugster subcategory for this platform, for example, because I couldn't find a sustaining resource inside Sun who was willing to own support for the platform.)

Nobody else in the community has stepped forward, or even complained about the broken state of the platform in OpenSolaris or SXCE.

At the same time, I've lost any desire to do the work, as I won't be able to use the platform at all with OpenSolaris (see the framebuffer problem I already eluded), and frankly my unit (which is only 500 MHz) is so underpowered as to be really unpleasant to work with anyway.

If someone else wants to own the work, I'm more than happy to hand it off. *I* won't be doing the work to keep the platform alive anymore, though, and I really think its time to remove it from ON, because it won't be usable with any distribution post b128 (unless you're willing to settle for a laptop that doesn't support X.)

   - Garrett

rich

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
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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