On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote:

> One of the main benefits of open source is to encourage folks to develop
> support for obscure or obsolete equipment.  So yes, we strongly encourage the
> community to port older drivers to X.org.  If you want to include those in
> opensolaris.org, that's relatively easy to do as well.  We, Sun, are not
> opposed to that at all.

Agreed, although in some instances, this community-driven approach is
somewhat hampered by the lack of open source code for those older
devices (cg6 being about the only exception).

I guess the drivers could be reverse engineered, but the actual source
code would be a much better starting point!

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

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