Alan Coopersmith writes: > Rainer Orth wrote: > > One issue that bothers me here for SPARC desktops: with Xsun removed, what > > will happen to machines whose framebuffers have only closed drivers > > (e.g. I'm currently using a Blade 1500 with XVR-600 (jbf) running > > snv_114). Will I be able to continue using it or will I be just out of > > luck? > > You're EOL. Only XVR-50, XVR-100, XVR-300, XVR-2500 & AST2100 are > going to be supported by Sun. Martin Bochnig ported open source > drivers for some of the older cards that you may be able to use, but > Sun won't be supporting them.
What a mess ;-( Martin, any word on an open source XVR-600/jfb driver? A couple of other questions: * The SPARC GFX tab on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ mentions: Components for which plans are not currently set [...] jfb driver (B) Sun XVR-1200 and Sun XVR-600 Graphics Accelerators Any news on this one? * This thread https://de.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=364798 suggests there might be a Xsun->Xorg shim that might enable the use of the existing closed Xsun jfb module. Any news here? * This thread http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=364789#364789 mentioned an OpenBSD Xorg driver for jfb. Anyone tried to get it working on OpenSolaris/Xorg? Thanks. Rainer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
