--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:
> What older PCI-E boards would it replace? The only PCI-E graphics
> cards Sun ever sold for SPARC workstations were the XVR-300
> for 2D users and the XVR-2500 for 3D users.
>
Odd, the XVR-200 was the PCI-E (x1) 32 VRAM graphics card used for the Sun Fire
T2000. I remember Sun also used the Matrox G4xx/5xx as a 3D x86 card a long
time ago (or at least I remember a few of Sun engineers with one).
Anyhow, the Sun XVR-300 card superceded it - didn't it?!?
> > I think of XSun as a legacy Xserver from Xorg 6.x
> source with added 'closed' and/or 'licensed' supplemental
> modules from Sun Engineering. That is it. We don't need
> legacy XSun today for the majority
> > of SPARC users - if the XSun/Xorg migration is done
> the RIGHT way.
>
> Xsun is not based on Xorg - the device independent layers
> are from the same
> X11R6 parentage, but everything under hw/ is quite
> different, especially
> the interfaces between the server and the loaded driver
> modules.
>
Well, the X11 "core" is what I'm actually pointing out. But ocrrect, the X11
implementations vary so saying Xorg wasn't defiantly correct. Hum bug.
> > -> Community supported (somewhat sketchy as I put
> this together a few
> > days ago when the project pages were being slashed
> together recently for SPARC graphics support)
> >
> > (Open source radeonfb/radeon-based drivers)
> > •Sun XVR-100
> > •PGX64 Graphics Accelerator (M64)
> > •Sun XVR-200 Graphics Accelerator (mko)
>
> XVR-200 is not an ATI card. It uses a
> Matrox G550 chipset.
Yes, I know this (my fault in category placement, but I did mention I was
'slashing' things together quickly for posting). Oh well.
The point comes down to Sun SPARC workstation/server users desiring
'replacement' PCI/PCI-E cards and 'Xorg' compatible drivers if Sun does not
provide certain 'Xorg' 2D/3D video drivers for OpenSolaris SPARC distros like
OSOL 2010.02 or MilaX.
The related issue is using pre-existing XSun-compatible video drivers or some
new hybrid closed source Xorg 7.4/7.5 compatible drivers to support the legacy
Sun 2D/3D graphic cards beyond future SNV_130 and higher consolidations.
Especially, existing SPARC workstation/server customers owning legacy 'PCI' 3D
workstation graphics cards like the Sun XVR-500/XVR-600/XVR-1200 in which
buying the Sun XVR-2500 PCI-E graphics card is not an option.
Anyhow, we'll always have Paris...
~ Ken Mays
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